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Complete BIDI support on GNOME?



LinuxToday has a GNOME progress report today. One of the projects
described is called Pango, which I found it interesting:
                                                         
> The  Pango  web  site went live a little while ago, and 
> Owen  has  been steadily hacking on Pango itself. Check 
> it out:                                                 
>                                                         
> http://www.pango.org                                                       
>                                                                            
> Pango  is  very  important  for  the  future  of free X                    
> desktops, and is separate from GTK. It solves at least                     
> two important problems:                                                    
>                                                                            
> -  it  gives  you  a  sane font API, so you can ask for                    
> "Times   Bold   14"   instead   of  "-*-*-*-blah-blah-*                    
> -I-am-in-X-hell-*-"                                                        
>                                                                            
> -  it  handles internationalized text layout, including                    
> bidirectional  rendering,  so  it will do all the major                    
> world  languages  -  East  and  Southeast Asian, Middle                    
> Eastern, everything.                                                       
>                                                                           
> Basically it is an infrastructure for dealing with and                     
> displaying  the  full  range  of languages supported by                    
> Unicode,  and  for  dealing with fonts. Initially Pango                    
> will be used for internationalization support in GTK+,                     
> but  other  projects  are encouraged to use it as well.                    
> Hopefully  this  will  become a standard library in the                    
> tradition of gettext.                                                      

What do you think?

	- Adi Stav

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