How hard is Uniscribe's ScriptLayout() to implement?

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Wed Sep 27 14:42:36 CDT 2006


On 9/27/06, Hans Leidekker <hans at it.vu.nl> wrote:
> > usp10.ScriptLayout() isn't implemented.
> > How hard would it be to fix this?
>
> As long as you don't use RTL scripts (such as Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew)
> a stub like the one I attached to the bug should do the job nicely. This
> goes for most of uniscribe.

Have you tried submitting your stub?
Since Quicktime worked before usp10 was checked in,
this is officially a regression, so Alexandre ought to
accept it even though it's only correct for LTR scripts.

> A full implementation that handles RTL scripts and mixtures of RTL and
> LTR scripts needs a lot of work, though we may be able to leverage libicu
> or the recently announced initiative to create an open source, uniscribe
> compatible library.

Got a URL for that?
- Dan



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