Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Aravind Menon
Hi, On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > I imagine your work is related to character -> glyph conversion. > Is that right? Yes, we have written some parsing routines for conversion from ISCII to glyph > > converter for it. When XmbDrawString is called with UTF encoded DEVANAGARI text,

Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Keith Packard
Around 12 o'clock on Feb 20, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > What font name you use? I imagine Devanagari will need more glyph > codepoints than character codepoints. Since these X11 functions > assume the character encoding to be *glyph* index, I think some > radical redesign would be needed for X f

Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:51:54 +0530 (IST), Aravind Menon wrote: > > Hi, > I do not exactly wish to do the entire handling of Indic script. We have > already modified a part of Xlib (the XDrawString and similar functions) to > handle input in a different manner when it is ISCII encoded

Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Akber Choudhry
Aravind, I am working on a similar project. Where is the font 'installed'? Also, what type of font is it? what is the OS? Regards, Akber On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Aravind Menon wrote: > Hi, > I do not exactly wish to do the entire handling of Indic script. We have > already modified a part o

Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Markus Kuhn
If you want to use Indic, there are two things you should look at: Pango http://www.pango.org/ ST http://stsf.sourceforge.net/ If you want to help with Indic support, I would focus on input methods. Output methods are now becomming mostly locale independent with UTF-8, so there is very litt

Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Aravind Menon
Hi, I do not exactly wish to do the entire handling of Indic script. We have already modified a part of Xlib (the XDrawString and similar functions) to handle input in a different manner when it is ISCII encoded (ISCII is an 8-bit encoding for Indic scripts and is compatible with ascii). T

Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:54:56 +0530 (IST), Aravind Menon wrote: > I am working on a project that involves changing Xlib to support Indian > locales. I am quite new to i18n and would like to get technical information > about the existing i18n framework, specifically the internal mechanis