Re: [Pan-users] How to read news in Japanese with 0.14.0?

[Himanshu J. Gohel]

"Christophe Lambin" wrote:

> Himanshu J. Gohel [14/06/03 14:50 -0400]:
>
> >Seems to me that for each character set, Pan should allow a
> >font spec, whereas right now I can only specify a global font!

> That's the approach of GTK2: you only specify a fontset and the
> underlying Pango subsystem works out which font to use. In the case of
> 'sans', you're actually using a fontset alias. Aliases are defined in
> /etc/pango/pangox.aliases (at least that's where it is on RH9). Pango

Thanks for the pointers, Christophe.  I forwarded the info to some folks
at SGI who are looking into the issue.  Here's the message:

> From: "Brandon Corey" (SGI)
>
> I'm going to look into it..  I did find the following information
> on the gtk development list:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002-April/msg00010.html
>
> That being said, I'll have to figure out the best way to create
> the file for IRIX.  It seems (from reading through the gtk list)
> that there are about 40 open bugs for trying to come up with a
> solution to this problem.  Thanks very much for bringing this to
> our attention!

Brandon later clarified that the 40 open bugs he was referring to were
among various platforms, not SGI IRIX.

Himanshu