Subject: Re: commit: ut_contextGlyph.cpp/h + Makefiles
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 04:39:02 CDT
--- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
wrote: >
> In response to a request in the bugzilla I have
> implemented a basic
> glyph shape selection based on context for scripted
> languages
> such as Arabic that have
> initial/medial/final/stand-alone glyphs for a
> single character. The behaviour is extremely basic
> and will only
> work for languages with 'legacy' code pages in
> Unicode where each
> such a shape is given a separate code point; it will
> not work for non-
> legacy code sets such as Syriac. It should allow us
> to expand the
> bidi-user base for the time being, until such a time
> when we get to
> use 'a proper' layout engine, such as Pango.
>
> At the moment the data contained in the new class is
> for Hebrew
> only, but I will try to get support for Arabic as
> soon as possible.
>
> This feature is enabled only in the bidi build.
Sorry for my late response but I'm just wondering
if this is XP code or *nix only. Since Windows seems
to handle these kinds of fonts in its rendering code.
Maybe this is not the case with non-bidi Win95 for
instance, and maybe not for non-Windows, non-*nix
OSes. I just wanted to pose the question in case it
need to be thought about at all.
Andrew Dunbar.
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