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List:       xfree-i18n
Subject:    Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism
From:       hiura () li18nux ! org (Hideki Hiura)
Date:       2002-02-21 19:50:08
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> From: Akber Choudhry <akber@dyanet.com>
> This is the best news in a long time. Thank you for your efforts.  Much
> appreciated.

The credit should go to my greatest colleague Steve Swales, aka the X.org
chair, and his great engineers Ienup Sung, Hidetoshi Tajima, Chookij
Vanatham, Prabhat Hegde and many who made this happen!

> Can you guide us on how to obtain a preview - so we can learn, provide
> input and build the CTL engines for other languages.

Does the souece before porting to Linux(means only confirmed to be
compilable on Solaris yet)? I think it would be just a week or so away
from the build tested with XFree86 4.x build on Linux.

Since the XomCTL is designed to be a part of XOM, the new interface
visible to programmers is the new attributes on the existing XOM APIs
to extend its capabilities.

Current(probably only) big consumer of XomCTL is CDE. This is how
Solaris(and other commercial UNIX) handles, say, Hindi, Japanese,
Thai, Arabic mixture text on DtMail. But unfortunately CDE source
is not freely distributable, we do not have the big source to
show here except a sample program we used to test its functionality.

Does such sample program help?

--
hiura@{sun.com,li18nux.org,kondara.org,unicode.org} http://www.li18nux.org
Chair, Li18nux/Linux Internationalization Initiative, Free Standards Group
Architect/Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc, USA  FAX 650-786-9553

> Once again, much appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Akber Choudhry
> 
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Hideki Hiura wrote:
> 
> > > From: hiura@li18nux.org (Hideki Hiura)
> > > I pushed XomCTL to the opensourcing path for long time, and last time
> > > I checked, all copyright holders signed to opensource XomCTL, but I
> > > do not know what the obstacle remaining afterall. I will double check the
> > > status.
> >
> > I confirmed that all legal issues with TOG are completely cleared,
> > so it is ready to be distributed freely without the TOG licensing fee.
> > Now several engineers in li18nux.org and Sun are actively working on
> > releasing the XomCTL, especially focusing on verifying its
> > functionality on Linux distributions.
> > Finally Xlib level CTL support is just right here.
> >
> > As of the study seen on Solaris 9, at least the support of Arabic,
> > Thai, Hebrew and Hindi in Xlib level is enable with this XomCTL.
> >
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> > Chair, Li18nux/Linux Internationalization Initiative, Free Standards Group
> > Architect/Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc, USA  FAX 650-786-9553
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> Akber Choudhry
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