<div dir="ltr">The best way to render international texts with cairo is by using pangocairo. See e.g.: <a href="http://live.gnome.org/PangoLayoutLineBbox">http://live.gnome.org/PangoLayoutLineBbox</a> for a C-example and <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Vala/PangoCairoSample">http://live.gnome.org/Vala/PangoCairoSample</a> for a vala example. Regards, Dov <div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/23 Tracy Hill <<a href="mailto:tghill@hotmail.com">tghill@hotmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> Does cairo support text with French accents such as "é"? When I use cairo_text_extents() to measure text, it returns a length of 0.  Other text works fine. Any ideas? - Greg <hr> <a></a></div> _______________________________________________ cairo mailing list <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org">cairo@cairographics.org</a> <a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo" target="_blank">http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo</a> </blockquote></div> </div>