Unicode-based Text Display for Smart Appliances
Intended Audience: |
Manager, Software Engineer, Systems Analyst, Marketer |
Session Level: |
Intermediate, Advanced |
Slangsoft helps Web-based applications, on-line services and Internet
Appliance makers serve their booming number of international users by
providing the ability to input text, smarter, faster and in any national
language. All Slangsoft products are based on the Unicode standard.
Slangsoft has developed a super-small Unicode-based rendering and
cross-platform font engine, complete with a rendering mechanism that allows
fonts in 42 languages to be drawn at any platform. The super small
footprint of the engine (less than 50k), as well as the amazingly small size
of the fonts (e.g. more than 3,000 Chinese characters in any size, italic,
bold and anti-aliasing is less than 30k), makes the engine perfect for Smart
Appliances which are gaining popularity at a rapid pace. Allowing characters
in any language to be displayed on the device minimizes the Smart Appliance
Maker's costs associated with the production, warehousing and distribution
of different devices for each country or region.
The font engine marks the first ever engine of this size that utilizes the
Unicode standard.
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