[pygtk] Displaying currency symbols in pyGTK

[John Hunter]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Robert Boehne <rboehne at comcast.net> wrote:
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> I'm attempting to do what should be simple, and that is display currency
> symbols in a pango markup label widget.
> However, when attempting to display the Pound Sterling symbol for the UK
> currency,
> I can get it to runder in a python prompt easily:
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> |>> print u'\u001E'
> <prints pound sterling symbol>
>
> but then if I put that in a gtk label it displays as a box with 00  across
> the top and 1E across the bottom.
>
> Question: What version of pyGTK supports unicode label strings?

It works on the version you have installed.  I have success just
putting literal unicode into the pango layout.  Where the 'X' in the
string below is actually and accented e that I am having trouble
making my browser accept but it is fine in emacs with utf coding
string (see attached for complete example)

    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    gc =3D widget.window.new_gc()

    context =3D widget.create_pango_context()
    layout  =3D widget.create_pango_layout(unicode('DXveloppXs et
fabriquXs', 'latin-1')

    fontsize =3D 12  # points
    scale =3D dpi/72.0

    desc =3D pango.FontDescription('Bitstream Vera Sans, normal 12')
    desc.set_size(int(scale*fontsize)*1024)
    layout.set_font_description(desc)
    inkRect, logicalRect =3D layout.get_pixel_extents()
    l,b,w,h =3D inkRect
    #l,b,w,h =3D logicalRect
    x, y =3D 100, 100
    widget.window.draw_rectangle( gc, 0, l+x, y+b, w, h)
    widget.window.draw_layout(gc, x, y, layout=3Dlayout)
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