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Re: [Groff] What's missing for Unicode support of groff?
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] What's missing for Unicode support of groff? |
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Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:13:08 +0200 (CEST) |
> - remove the "charset" section of the font files for utf8 and html,
> - split the "font" C++ class into a class hierarchy
> class font; // abstract
> class concrete_font: font; // useful for other devices,
> // with "charset" section
> class algorithmic_font: font; // useful for utf8, html devices,
> // without "charset" section,
> // determines the width of each
> // character algorithmically.
Sounds good, but it has lower priority IMHO than implementing UTF-8
input.
> 3) For devices such as DVI, PS, X100, implement rendering of
> composed characters, for bidi languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi)
> and for Indic languages (with vowel reordering). The obvious
> king's path for this is to use GNOME's pango.
Uh, oh, this has really *low priority*. Let's first handle the simple
scripts.
> I know that work has begin on 3).
Really? Please give an URL.
> Since for languages such as Chinese and Russian - "Unicode level 1"
> -, only 1) and 2) are needed, my priority would be on 1) and 2).
> I.e. I volunteer to work on that.
Great!
> > Something like this [Tomohiro Kubota's iconv preprocessor,
> > i.e. 1)] should become part of groff as soon as it supports
> > Unicode on the input side.
>
> What else is needed to support Unicode on the input side?
Unicode support in groff :-)
Werner