From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 18:03:42 EDT
At 03:11 PM 5/13/02 -0700, I wrote:
>Instead, I'll put the ball back in your court. Can you think of a better
>way to take Bart up on his offer of help? I'm pretty sure he's serious, and
>I never want to pass up paid help from a company that knows something about
>word processors.
After some private email with Alan, here are a few better ideas:
1. See if they're interested in working on Pango.
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Having shipped a Korean word processor on Windows (no longer supported from
what I hear), Hancom is now moving into the Linux world in a big way.
Insofar as we have a strong interest in:
- having Pango run well on non-Linux platforms, and
- having it do a great job of supporting CJK languages,
perhaps this is an area where they could apply their existing expertise in
ways that would help us, the GNOME project, and themselves. I'm betting
that Hancom engineers may not be free to contribute to our GPL codebase, but
Pango is LGPL, so that should still a licensable option for them.
2. See if they'd be willing to fund some high-quality TTF fonts.
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As we all know, there just aren't enough high-quality Unicode fonts
available for use on Unix. Indeed, I suspect that the situation is even
worse for complex scripts like Korean.
I suspect that any fonts they already have use other encodings, but
depending on how they licensed those fonts in the first place, perhaps
they'd be willing to fund an effort to convert them to Unicode and release
them. (Or not. That might be a key part of the value-add for their
distro.) Still, that's right up Bart's alley.
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Would any of our i18n folks be interested in pursuing either of these ideas
with Bart? Alan's looking to bow out of that conversation, and I'm way over
my AbiWord time budget for the week.
Thanks,
Paul
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