On 02/12/2007, Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki@vpri.org wrote:
The text renderer currently we are using is written in Squeak. The theory is that everybody can modify it, but so far nobody tried to add complex script shaping handling.
Can you give some pointers so we can get an idea of what it would take to add Devanagari in this way?
I need to clean up some stuff. But see that attached picture. I saved an HTML I found on the net, read it and make up a WideString consists of these characters, and create a TextMorph.
How do you read it up and create the WideString?
The font we really want to use is this: http://nepalinux.org/fonts/samanata.ttf -- can you tell if that's supported somehow? e.g. import the font page of Nepali wikipedia into Squeak and take a screenshot?
We'll look more at the details you and Bert have sent tomorrow and then we're also meeting the experts who translate Linux/Gnome into Nepali. Maybe we already have all the details we need but anything extra might come in handy :-)
On Windows, Mac, and Linux, ot works. For the next version of Squeakland, it won't be there, unfortunately.
Out of curiosity -- how will the next Squeakland differ from the XO? We'd like very much to be able to "webify" the Squeak projects that we develop for the XO.
Thanks again ! -Luke