[Etoys] pangoRenderer

K. K. Subramaniam subbukk at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 02:00:38 EDT 2008


On Saturday 18 Oct 2008 2:40:01 am Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>   I tried to reproduce it, but not successfully.  One thing that might
> affect is that you actually have a different etoys.mo file for
> Spanish, and your etoys-dev-4.0 finds it?  The system trys to decide
> whether it should turn it on or not by looking at some phrases and
> specs in the .mo file
What was the rationale behind such a logic?

Locale is a poor determinant of rendering method. I would expect the method to 
be text style tag rather than spread all over the place like this. The 
current approach seems to add complexity to an already complex issue of 
multilingual text.

Did I miss something? .. Subbu


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