Subject: Re: Zero-width chars remapped, why?
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2001 - 14:53:47 CDT
--- Martin Sevior
<msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >
> 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.
Please note that there is a hidden setting in your
AbiWord profile that lets you turn off this broken
feature. I can't recall its name right now but please
look around and ask around. It makes Thai more usable
but still far from perfect. Please also report all
Thai related bugs. I'm very keen to get new users and
developers who are interested in complex scripts.
Andrew Dunbar.
=====
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