Geany uses the Scintilla text editor widget, which in turn uses a text layout/rendering library called Pango to do international text rendering. I believe (and someone correct me if I am wrong...) that Pango does not use one specific font to do all of its rendering, but will choose a "font" based on the glyph that it needs to render.
For example, Geany simply requests the generic "monospace" font alias by default. But as you can see in the screenshot, the Asian glyphs are not displayed with a fixed width.
Some more appropriate resources to check might be:
http://www.pango.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pango http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I18n http://www.cairographics.org/
Laszlo Nagy wrote:
This is not strictly a question about using Geany. I need to generate PDF reports with latin1, latin2, chinese and greek text mixed. I could not find a good font for this. I noticed that Geany is able to display all this together. Example screenshot:
http://www.shopzeus.com/geany.jpg
I tried to use the installed vera monospace font (VeraMono.ttf) in a PDF file but it could'nt display most of asian characters. Can you please tell me which is that font?
Thanks,
Laszlo
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