On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 23:55 +0100, Adam Blokus wrote: > Hi, > I opened my developer mailbox after quite a long time and found by my > surprise that there is already quite a lot of noise about the next > GSoC. During the last few months I got a job and together with my two > faculties it made me not realise how quickly time has passed. I am > really sorry for my absence and that I was not as available to > continue any work of mine during the last few months.
That's cool -- life happens :) > I am writing now mainly to excuse myself, as I do not have enough time > right now to engage myself and also I don't really feel eligible to > run for Google-NetSurf coder again this year. Thanks for letting us know. Your efforts last year are much appreciated :) > But, if it is still of > some interest for you - I have found that the ICU libs > (http://www.icu-project.org/) may be quite useful for creating a > "heuristical" solution for the problem of national characters(not > standard ASCII) in pdf files. There are some functions useful for > determining a utf-8 document's language - what could be used later to > select a font/encoding to be used by haru for pdf exporting. As I > declared myself for finishing this issue, I will try to manage to find > some time to get into it(or to manage embedding unicode text into pdf > files, if possible) - but I think there will surely be not more than a > few hours per month. Any progress is good, no matter how slow :) ICU is huge, though, which may be a concern. > Also, there are some better news from me - I have talked with my > brother about NetSurf and he would like to try helping out a little. > He is a second year student eager to improve his skills in a really > useful project (not one of these we write at the university just to > throw away after passing ;) ). He has similar experience as I had last > year before starting GSoC, so I hope that if I was of any use, he will > be, too:p. I advised him to show up on IRC - maybe you could find > something for him? I'm sure that's possible, yes. J.
