> wonderful - so after 3 years or so, firefox guys are uninterested in > the second largest country in the world. How come Konqueror manages it? Aren't we being a little hard on them? If I were to interpret what firefox developers might be saying (completely my words), it would go something like this:
We have checked the code into firefox to enable "complex text layout" necessary for some non latin scripts including many from indic, arabic, south east asian, and arabic languages. For anyone distributing firefox for these languages, please compile with the options required to enable CTL. We are not enabling it by default for everyone, because the performance penalty for the rest of the users does not justify the gains as most indic (or other such language) speakers browse the web in english. (More so, they generate most of their web content in english, and use english language skills as a differentiator to show/feel that they are educated and high class.) After that it is the responsibility of the indian foss community and other government agencies to make sure that ctl builds are available. For instance ubuntu and many other distributions' firefox build is by default ctl enabled, and all one needs to do is set the environment variable. I have personally never had problems with firefox w.r.t. indic. So, feel a little bad if the good folks at firefox get bad PR due to misunderstanding. If someone feels that it is not enough, they should find the firefox / ubuntu / redhat / <your favorite distribution> forums and make a case as they deem appropriate. I'd be happy to contribute to any discussion regarding enabling ctl by default in firefox. Cheers, Ajay _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
