[cairo] About cairo_show_text and UTF-8...

[Owen Taylor]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 10:21 -0500, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> I'm running Cairo 1.0.2 and GTK+ 2.8.9 on a system with LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> and LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> In interface components like a GtkLabel, I can include UTF-8 encodings
> that display correctly, as in this line of code:
> 
>    cos_label = gtk_label_new ("cos <i>\316\270</i>:");
>    gtk_widget_show (cos_label);
> 
> However, when I try to display the same encoding using cairo_show_text,
> I see a rectangle instead of the expected theta character:
> 
>      cairo_show_text(drawing_cr, "\316\270");
> 
> I am using the system font (Sans) in Cairo.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?

Well, perhaps not obvious, but you should be using Pango as the text API
when using Cairo, just as you do for GTK+ or GDK.

  PangoLayout *layout = pango_cairo_create_layout (drawing_cr);
  pango_layout_set_text (layout, "\316\270");
  pango_cairo_show_layout(drawing_cr, layout);
  g_object_unref (layout);
  
Regards,
						Owen

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