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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: hindi gnome & indix project(was Re:hindi)
From:       Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar () freedomink ! org>
Date:       2002-06-20 12:44:18
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:33:14 +0200
Lars Knoll <lars@trolltech.com> wrote:

> 
> > Here is the Gnome-Hindi translation team for
> > Hindi(http://indlinux.org/hindi/gnome/index.php). You(the person
> > who started the tread) can direct your enquiries there.
> >
> > On Thursday 20 June 2002 01:32 pm, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > > I think a solution to this should be based on Xft/freetype,
> > > where we can get direct access to the fonts, we should not even
> > > try to make it work with non Xft based systems. Getting the
> > > glyphs from Xft is not the problem, but knowing which glyphs to
> > > use for the ligatures. The best solution would be to implement
> > > the open type solution MS uses, as we can then use all indic
> > > open type fonts available.
> >
> > The guys at Indix Project(http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/) are
> > trying to provide support for indic languages right at the
> > X-server level, by modifying the X-server itself. Their
> > server(indix) even has support for open-type
> > fonts(http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/technical_details.html).
> > But IMHO, it does seem too complicated & whether such a thing is
> > really feasible in terms of stability, et al needs to be pondered.
> > -Pramod.
> 
> Doing it at the XServer level seems wrong to me. Some people tried
> this for hebrew/arabic, but the result can be at best halfways
> usable for displaying. You will get lots of problems with
> applications that query font metrics on a per character basis and
> assume these are correct. There is no way at all you could get an
> editor working this way. 
> 
> So IMO the work has to be done on the toolkit level that offers
> displaying and editing widgets. In our case this is Qt, and I am
> very much willing to devote time to implement this, once we get the
> basics in place. This means I would need some way to get access to
> the open type tables from freetype or (best) Xft. Once we have that,
> we are a big step further, as Qt already offers a lot of the
> infrastructure needed.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lars
> 
> 
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