[Indic-computing-users] fontset?

[Tapan S. P. <ta...@ya...>]

I am monkeying around i18nizing a Gtk-2 app, and I am finding the only
way to set a font that I am able to view properly is to put an explicit
font-name setting in the .rc file.  I am also finding that the fontset
setting doesnt work, I think Xft doesnt handle it properly...

This causes a big problem because then it means that its hard to specify
more than 1 font for an application, meaning if that font doesnt have
all 
chars u want u are in trouble...  anyone know of any workaround of
getting this to work using fontset or some other less bruteforce
mechanism?  I think the other option is to put some family settings in
.xftconfig....  

The Xft coordination with Gtk / Pango folks could be alot better it
seems...

i just spent the last two days i18n-izing my project.  lots of caveats
and problems that are VERY poorly documented on the web...  Here are
just a list of things I can think of:

- getting your gettext/po architecture and coordinating with
your Makefile structure
- populating and installing po files using some editor
- installing proper fonts
- configuring X and Xft to use those fonts
- configuring your app to use the correct fonts
- setting and using locales, etc.

So far Ive got the thing working and integrated nicely with my build
process, but I have to admit there is a good 20-30% of things I did
above I dont even understand...  It seems that not too many people have
gotten to work on actually localising apps yet so the documentation on
the web is a little sparse...

When I get time Ill write up a quick HOWTO with links about this process
w/ an emphasis on Indic....