Re: [RFC] moving translations off sheets ?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> In short, the plan could be the following:
>
>       - ASAP: 0.89-rc1 (from the current CVS) 
>       - ASAP+few days: 0.89 proper (everything's perfect, isn't it ?)
>       - for 0.90: string handling audit ; xml-i18n-tools ; actual removal
>       of renderobjects and libsybase.so ; if we're bold, flipping the
>       UNICODE_WORK_IN_PROGRESS switch.
>       - after 0.90: removing the UNICODE_WIP symbol (making its code the
>       default) [*]
>
> (of course, I haven't talked about the GUI area or Bonobo stuff, which
> while important, isn't much into my area of knowledge)
>
> Lower priority but important too: kill lazyprops (no fun job, but I feel
> it's my mess -- I welcome help, of course !), bring objects into
> modernity (and in the mean time, have at least a Connection and an
> Element polished and tagged as "reference objects" for new object
> writers).
>
> [*] that doesn't mean UNICODE mandatory. This is a separate issue.
>       
> What do you think of this ?

I would add one thing, most likely to 0.90, namely optional use of the
freetype library.  While there are other areas where I have "wouldn't it be
neat" ideas, fonts is a "this currently sucks" area.  Though it is very
quiet about it, FreeType does seem to handle UniCode fonts.

-Lars

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