Re: Updated Indic Patches

[Eric Mader <mader jtcsv com>]

At 11:21 AM 2/27/2002, Alex Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Eric Mader wrote:
>
> > At 08:44 AM 2/26/2002, Alex Larsson wrote:
> > >What would be really cool is if someone wrote a pango shaper for win32
> > >based on uniscribe. That would immediately support a load of scripts.
> > >
> > >/ Alex
> >
> > Well, Windows 2000/XP can draw text given a font, a list of glyph IDs and
> > positions,
>
> This is what the pango win32 backend currently does.
>
> > so it shouldn't be that hard to write a psuedo Xft renderer for
> > Windows...
>
> But i fail to see what this has to do with Xft.
>
> / Alex

What I meant was that Pango's Xft script modules produce a list of glyphs 
and positions, so we should be able to write a renderer for Windows that 
can render the output of these modules.

Eric