Subject: Re: i18n of abiword -- combining characters
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 15:45:30 CST
Wow! It's cool to see that we have folks on this list who are very literate
on the charset issues for various South Asian scripts (Thai, Cambodian,
Gujarati, Devanagari, etc.). Thanks for all the details.
I think we're in consensus here that the combining characters problem (as I
originally described it) is real, and can't entirely be deferred to OS
services or Unicode for all languages.
I continue to hold out hope that if we send a Thai string (in Unicode or
TIS-620) to a rendering engine that it might be able to do some of the
single-cell composition for us, thus solving issue #4 in my original
summary:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/January/0093.html
Even so, some of the other issues (especially #2 and #3) will still need to
be addressed in our XP code.
I suspect we've gotten as far as we can with this particular discussion
until people are willing to dive into the actual implementation details of
coding various possible alternatives.
Paul
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