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Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Bengali numbers
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Taneem Ahmed |
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Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Bengali numbers |
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Sat, 7 Jun 2003 19:47:01 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering, if it is possible for the rendering engine to
> detect the current $LANG (or something similar), and swap the glyphs
> for the English numerals and the Bengali numerals? -TIA- sdg
it can be done, but I don't think we should do it. Rendering engine is way
too low level in the whole flow, something like this should be at best in
the library level widgets (e.g. gtk's text/label widget)
Taneem
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