[Alexandria-list] Alexandria and Pango

[Girish Kulkarni]

Sorry, I forgot to attach the text file.

Apologies,
Girish.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> 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.

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Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com
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