>What exactly do you need? With FreeType 1.x comes support for
>OpenType GSUB and GPOS tables (recently updated to cover OpenType
>version 1.3):
I'm studying ways to provide Linux with unicode-compliant Myanmar character
fonts.
Mark Leisure use .bdf format to enable to enter unicode values easily for
some Indic fonts.
With reference to that, I did .bdf !!! Now, my MS Windows platform friends
are doing Open Type. Then, I became to think that it would be nice that we
use the same format regardless of the platform and there I'm stuck:(
Btw, am I digging the right thing? Sould I just stick with .bdf at the
moment????
But, Unicoders' preferences and responses are so invaluable to me and so
informative that I'm moved a bit.
> ftp://ftp.freetype.org/pub/unstable/freetype-current.tar.gz
I have both FT1.3 and 2.0 as the latest. I have to give myself some more
time working around with those.
>IIRC, the Pango complex script layout library uses this (ported to
>FreeType 2.x), so it is possible to make applications on Linux and
>similar platforms OpenType-aware. I don't know whether Pango already
>has a module for Burmese -- I'm quite sure that the author of Pango
>would be happy if you can contribute something :-)
Yes. Pango has done something about Myanmar ("Burmese" as you quote). And
the author also contacted me (actually to Myanmar Linux User Club under
Yahoo) to test for him. Unfortunately, I was not serious about this at that
time and got lost of his contact after a couple of correspondences. As for
now, I'm more than serious and It is time I should contact him again to
merge our activities.
Thank you for your concern and your info.
Regards,
William
william@MyanmarLUG.org
P.S. Oh !!! In case I produce anything, it will be GPL'ed.
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