Ooops, I spoke too soon about the fonts...
Tcl/Tk supports anti-aliased fonts on X windows with version 8.5 which after updating to, Pd started up with menu fonts closer to the system's style. (My Ubuntu 8.04 originally had some version in the 8.4 line.)
-- David Shimamoto
Hans,
Just an update to the chat on IRC,
The message pack in Japanese worked right out of the box.
Here's a screen shot. http://pspunch.com/pd/pd-devel_jp.png
-- OT,
Unfortunately there are very few non-proprietary Japanese fonts that an average user considers reasonably beautiful, which I imagine users of other Asian charsets may relate to. What individuals configure for their desktop is often where they've settled after a trial and error figuring what suites them best and would be nice to see them in tk menus as well.
The following quoted from http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/font.htm#M41
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X Windows All valid X font names, including those listed by xlsfonts(1), are available.
MS Windows The following fonts are supported, and are mapped to the user's style defaults.
Mac OS X The following fonts are supported, and are mapped to the user's style defaults.
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I wonder how difficult it is, or what may break if tk uses system default styles for X, or is it a concept unique to Gnome?
Just a something I would like to add to the veeeeeery bottom of the wish list.
-- David Shimamoto
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