This block filter stuff is not required.

The problem is that you convert the UTF8 text to iso8859 and then back to utf8 for displaying. During the first convert you are loosing the characters as iso8859 cannot keep all of them.

Simply only convert characters required to be displayed outside in the mui gui and hand over utf8 to cairo or ttengine. This will work fine without any side effects.

Geit

[ Edited by geit 28.09.2014 - 14:34 ]