Re: [Indic-computing-users] fontset?

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:48:52 +0530
"Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@ya...> wrote:

> 
> 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... 

 Its all in here

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/index.en.html#contents

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-library.en.html#s-gettextize


> 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...
> 
 Nope. The job is actually divided. Programmers do the i18n part,
translators  & maintainers do the l10n part. this they just do once,
with autoconf/automake its much simpler. The gettext info doc has it,
what programmers has to do , what a translator has to do. 

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

Regards,
Karunakar