Mike Hearn wrote:
To be frank I think that's Debians problem, or to more accurate the
problem of those who insist on using apt-get for everything. If WineHQ
provides high quality tested binaries with ICU included, they can use
that if they want BiDi.
There will *always* be random distros that have
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 11:47 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> No, that won't solve the problem. For a package to be included in
> Debian, for example, it needs to be reconstructible by doing "apt-get
> source wine; apt-get build-dep wine"
To be frank I think that's Debians problem, or to more accu
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Maybe we can get our supplied packages to be BiDi enabled, but so
long as we use ICU, and ICU has this horrible linking policy, we
can't really
What linking policy?
I checked the IBM ICU website (http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/ and
specifically
http://oss.software.ibm.c
Mike Hearn wrote:
OK. Well, that can be solved by WineHQ providing high quality binary
packages that work anywhere. When I get around to this (maybe in a few
months) I'll let you know and you can kick me if I get ICU
integration wrong :)
thanks -mike
No, that won't solve the problem. For a packa
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:00:37 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> 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.
Pango shapers are plugin modules written specifically for Pango, iirc.
> The really sad thing here i
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 ca
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
