Thanks for the reply. > > particular font is a general requirement. Therefore, I wonder why is it > > necessary to write shaper modules for each character set. > > Simple. Because there's no mechanism in Pango by which an external > mapping file is refered to extract the mapping between a sequence of > Unicode characters and a sequence of glyphs. I guess it'll be never > written because Pango is going to drop support for X11core fonts (or the > X11 driver is going to be maintained as it is now with minimal bug fixes). Ok. That means, I have to write a pango shaper anyway, right? Next question is, will I have to write seperate engines for other toolkits (QT/Xforms etc) as well? Anuradha
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