Pango for BiDi

[Shachar Shemesh]

Mike Hearn wrote:

>Hi Shachar,
>
>I am reading your interview and a few words jumped out at me, mostly
>"BiDi", "shaping" and "unicode" - very vague I know, but if I
>understand correctly Pango is a library with advanced support for shaping
>and laying out all kinds of different scripts. Only stopper I can think of
>would be that it uses UTF-8 not UTF-16.
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Pango uses fribidi for it's bidi. As fribidi doesn't do shaping, I'm not 
sure where pango's shaping comes from. It may be an add-on.

In any case, I'm hoping that if/when fribidi starts to support UTF-16, 
pango will follow. Last time I looked at it, we were too far off from 
needing what pango had to offer. Getting a bidi edit control (sigh) is 
much higher on my todo (for which I have no time :-( )

>Have you looked at this, or am I talking smack?
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The really sad thing here is that ICU really has everything we need. 
It's just that it's too simple for people to compile wine without it, 
that is the problem.

>thanks -mike
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Shachar