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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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