[Alexandria-list] Alexandria and Pango

[Girish Kulkarni]

I started using Alexandria 0.6.3 on Ubuntu 8.04 after upgrading from
Ubuntu 7.10 the day before. There is a problem however: this new
version of Alexandria seems to have trouble with Pango.

Some book entries in my library are in Marathi and Hindi. These
languages are written in the devanagari script, and correct rendering
of ligatures in unicode devanagari require Pango. Alexandria 0.6.3
gives the following error while loading devanagari entries from my
library:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext.rb: line 154
   Pango-WARNING **:Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()

Further, when I click on any of the devanagari entries in, Alexandria
spews a lot of messages at the terminal, and crashes. The whole
session is as shown in the attached file. This did not happen in the
earlier version of Alexandria. There are no crashes when I click on
other entries.

What could be wrong? Something wrong with the pango (v1.6.0) that
comes with Ubuntu's new version? Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Girish.