Re: Devanagari composing help needed

From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai@in-nomine.org)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2007 - 01:04:26 CDT

  • Next message: Ambarish Sridharanarayanan: "Re: Devanagari composing help needed"

    -On [20070607 20:37], John Hudson (john@tiro.ca) wrote:
    > That sounds likely. The browser will need to make use of some text layout
    > engine that understands Indic script requirements and can communicate with
    > the layout features and lookups in the font. Under Windows, Firefox makes
    > use of the system Uniscribe engine. Under Linux it will need to plug in to
    > Pango or ICU.

    For those interested:

    http://www.in-nomine.org/~asmodai/firefox-rendering.png

    is how Firefox on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE with X.org 7.2 renders the text in
    question. 

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