Subject: Re: i18n of abiword
From: Pruet Boonma (pruet@eng.cmu.ac.th)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 07:57:47 CST
Quoting Pruet Boonma <pruet@eng.cmu.ac.th>:
> Quoting Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com>:
>
> > At 05:40 PM 1/7/00 +0700, Pruet Boonma wrote:
> > >Abiword can display Thai fonts on Linux but not display correctly (its
> > >problem come from complex method to Thai font presentation).
> >
> > This raises two questions:
> >
> > 1. Did you need to do any special input method work to recognize Thai
> > characters, or does the existing code work well enough?
>
> I don\\\'t know. I did not check that how AbiWord handle display character on
> screen. But if we can
> handle superscribe or subscribe so we can handle Multi-level displaying of
> Thai characters.
Opps. I think that I miss somethink. Yes we need special method to handle This input
We usually call it Thai normalization. Please look at homepage below for more information .
pruet
>
> >
> > 2. Is this the problem of mapping Unicode characters to the charsets
> used
> > in the fonts? If so, we could use a general solution to the problem.
>
> No. TIS-620 (Thai code) can be mapping directly to Unicode.
>
> Please look at this homepage for more information about Thai implementation
> and its problem.
> http://www.inet.co.th/cyberclub/trin/thairef/
>
> >
> > >I am interested in making Abiword to support Thai document, which
> require
> > >word breaking, cause Thai language use continous word (not separate word
> > >by space like English) so we need word breaking mechanism (which we have
> > >some library to support this mechanism already). The problem is , where
> > >should I look first for insert my word breaking code ?
> >
> > Each paragraph (a logical block) currently uses an fb_LineBreaker
> instance
> > which encapsulates all (most?) knowledge of line-breaking algorithms.
> That
> >
> > class is instantiated once per section and handed to each block\\\'s
> > constructor.
> >
> > abi/src/text/fmt/xp/fb_LineBreaker.cpp
> > abi/src/text/fmt/xp/fb_LineBreaker.h
> > abi/src/text/fmt/xp/fl_BlockLayout.cpp
> > abi/src/text/fmt/xp/fl_BlockLayout.h
> > abi/src/text/fmt/xp/fl_SectionLayout.cpp
> > abi/src/text/fmt/xp/fl_SectionLayout.h
> >
> > If the entire section is going to be in Thai, then you might just be able
> > to
> > subclass the fb_LineBreaker class and invoke your code from there.
>
> I think that this place is where I can put my code it. Thanks you :)
>
> >
> > Otherwise, as Justin suggests, we may want to introduce hyphenation APIs
> > (for breaking inside words) and put your code there.
>
> I will waiting for it.
>
> Pruet
>
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
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