Re: OpenType Indic Support

[Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:47:00PM -0800, Keyur Shroff wrote:
> --- Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:
> > The overwhelming trend in X these days is to push all
> > intelligence
> > into the toolkit instead of the X server.
> 
> The main advantage of putting Shapers at X Window level is
> that we can use existing toolkits with minimal or no
> changes.

As seen from here, this is a good example of random walk design.  The main
thing is good i18n support and we will get there one way or another or both.  :-)

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