-#ifndef HAVE_PANGO_FONT_FAMILY_IS_MONOSPACE
-    if (g_ascii_strcasecmp( pango_font_description_get_family( description ), "monospace" ) == 0)
-        return wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE;
-#else
-
-    PangoFontFamily **families;
-    PangoFontFamily  *family;
-    int n_families;
-    pango_context_list_families(
+    wxFontFamily ret = wxFONTFAMILY_DEFAULT;
+    // note: not passing -1 as the 2nd parameter to g_ascii_strdown to work
+    // around a bug in the 64-bit glib shipped with solaris 10, -1 causes it
+    // to try to allocate 2^32 bytes.
+    const char *family_name = pango_font_description_get_family( description );
+    char *family_text = g_ascii_strdown( family_name, family_name ? strlen( family_name ) : 0 );
+    // Check for some common fonts, to salvage what we can from the current win32 centric wxFont API:
+    if (strncmp( family_text, "monospace", 9 ) == 0)
+        ret = wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE; // begins with "Monospace"
+    else if (strncmp( family_text, "courier", 7 ) == 0)
+        ret = wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE; // begins with "Courier"
+#if defined(__WXGTK24__) || defined(HAVE_PANGO_FONT_FAMILY_IS_MONOSPACE)
+    else
+#ifdef __WXGTK24__
+    if (!gtk_check_version(2,4,0))
+#endif
+    {
+        PangoFontFamily **families;
+        PangoFontFamily  *family = NULL;
+        int n_families;
+        pango_context_list_families(