Re: standards for GUI translation

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Sander Vesik <Sander.Vesik@Sun.COM> writes:

> No. An additional potential problem is that gnome (strictly speaking
> glib/pango/gtk+) presently supports unicode 3.0 and not unicode 3.2.
> In principle (and especially if you know where it all will end up in the
> end) you could use hacked versions, but this can easily end up in a mess
> if the includsion in Unicode happens differently. If I get the meaning of
> "conjucts" right, it will at the very least mean largish changes to the
> Bengali shaper in pango.

some changes to the arabic shaper to support Unicode-3.2 characters
have been recently accepted to the stable branch of pango in CVS.
This makes me think that similar changes would be accepted for the
Bengali shaper. To get good support for Bengali it might however be
even more important to add shapers for the Xft and FT2 backends since
at the moment only the legacy X font system seems to be supported.


Salut, Sven