OpenType font support for indic scripts

Ned Konz ned at squeakland.org
Wed Apr 6 16:47:30 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 06 April 2005 1:55 am, Boris Gaertner wrote:
> >        I am exploring ways to incorporate opentype fonts for indic
> > scripts. If I am correct UNICODE support is already there in squeak.
>
> Yes, to some extent we have Unicode support. To the best of
> my knowlegde we do not currently have support for
>    * scripts that are written from right to left
>    * scripts that require script shaping

I wonder whether it might make sense to do a plugin for the Pango library, 
until a native-Squeak version is written.

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