Subject: Re: Zero-width chars remapped, why?
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2001 - 10:00:23 CDT
This is a fundamental design flaw. I hope Bill Carpenter will fix and/or
defend this otherwise I think we should disable it for Unix at least.
It was orginally put in place to do smart quote remapping but as Unix has
no smart quote glyphs anyway it is quite useless on that platform. It also
adds about 50-100 lines of code EXTRA to be excuted on every single character
drawn to the screen.
I think we could get a big boost in speed on Unix if we disable this.
Cheers
Martin
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder why zero-width chars have to be remapped before being rendered.
> Is there any reason behind? This has made using Thai in Abiword
> impossible, as all combining characters are rendered funny.
>
> Thanks,
> -Thep.
> --
> Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
> Thai Linux Working Group (TLWG)
> http://linux.thai.net/~thep/
> mailto:thep@linux.thai.net
>
>
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