[Tuxpaint-devel] SDL_Pango

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

FYI, thanks to someone's note in one of the bugs at SourceForge,
I've discovered "SDL_Pango," an SDL front-end to GNOME 2.x's Pango text
rendering engine:

  http://sdlpango.sourceforge.net/


It is NOT currently packaged for Debian Unstable ('sid'), and seems to
be a relatively unknown project, based on how few SF.net file
downloads there have been.  So, I've compiled it from source and installed
it on my system at home.  Here's a screenshot of the test app that's
included:

  http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/sdl_pango.png

Eventually we'll need to use this to handle some more complicated
scripts, such as Arabic, I think.

I don't think this helps the problem we have with non-ASCII entry into the
"Text" tool in Tux Paint, though.  Any ideas for that?

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