On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I presented on indic rendering at Gnome.Asia summit. You can view > the material > at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/Slides > attachment:Towards Perfect Indic Rendering on Gnome By Arjuna Rao > Chavala.pdf > > Harfbuzz-ng is expected to be released soon as per the mailing list > discussions and it is time that indic community gives priority to updating > indic shaper. As Harfbuzz-arabic is already completed by Behdad, it could be > a good starting point for indic shaper. > > Perfect indic rendering is a key priority for use of Linux in any governemnt > initiated software development, which will become critical, as government > and other agencies take steps to provide content/transactions in local > languages to reach all their customers. Please share your interest and the > specific languages you can contribute in this initiative with in a week. The > plan is to discuss and form a team to develop concrete plans and execute > the same. >
Nice to see initiative. For some time I have been out of sync with this. Could you post further a writeup on how to build/test Harfbuzz-ng. I think Praveen had done some work on it earlier (or providing HB team inputs on Indic), we could go by testing it out for each script/language and find out specific issues. Karunakar > Cheers > Arjun > http://tech4society.blogspot.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Xperia(TM) PLAY > It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming > smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. > And it wants your games. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev > _______________________________________________ > IndLinux-group mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
