Unicode Releases Common Locale Data Repository, Version 1.7

2009-05-15 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Hi all, Just wanted to tell you that the Unicode Consortium released CLDR 1.7 last week (full announcement below). GNOME is a member of the Unicode Consortium, and we plan to use more of CLDR data in GNOME and vice versa. I am working with Behdad (GNOME's other representative to the Unicode Conso

FYI: Unicode Releases Common Locale Data Repository, Version 1.6

2008-07-02 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Unicode just released CLDR 1.6. This is the first time GNOME is mentioned as a contributor. (Behdad, any news from the press release? ;-) On another note, implementing CLDR in GNOME still needs huge resources and time. Roozbeh -- Unicode Releases Common Locale Data Reposi

Suggested prototype for non-Gregorian calendars

2006-06-06 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
I just opened a glib bug for supporting alternative calendars as some (re?)starting point for locale project (aka giulia): http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344005 I have attached a ".h" file to the bug for discussion, and I am also planning to extend GtkCalendar to handle non-Gregorian c

Re: [gtk-i18n-list] Unicode PUA supporting issue in gtk+/pango

2006-01-01 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 11:34 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:53:44 +0800 > Zhe Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMO, it's unfair. > > Excuse me, am I accused as unfair? > > PRC (or anybody else) had proposed precomposed Tibetan glyphs > to Unicode official inclusion? I c

Re: Arabic-Indic digits and g_date_strftime()

2005-10-01 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 04:35 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > But hey, check first with > the Arab community. I'm not quite sure that using those digits > is actually preferred at all. Well, it *is* preferred in Saudi Arabia, as far as I know. Also in a few other countries, but the exact list is co

Re: Arabic line spacing problem

2005-04-28 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Screenshots? roozbeh On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 09:10 -0500, Boncek, John wrote: > I have an application with internationalized text display working well, > mostly, using GTK 2.2.4, pango 1.2.5, and UTF-8. It runs under MontaVista > Linux and uses gdk_draw_layout to draw all text. However, I have a