Around 12 o'clock on Mar 11, Drew Parsons wrote: > Keith said Xprint is increasingly irrelevant, but I'm not aware how this > language issue can be satisfactorily solved without Xprint.
Mozilla is currently integrating Pango support for complex text layout issues; using that for printing would be a logical step as it would support many more scripts than Mozilla does today, even with Xprint. But, as of today, Mozilla does rely on Xprint for non-Latin printing, and so it does indeed remain a relevant part of Debian. I am working hard to make sure the Debian desktop supports all of the world's languages in an efficient and correct fashion. I'm hoping to provide a better solution than what is provided by Xprint today, but I also acknowledge that Xprint is still useful in some environments and hence has a place on some desktops for now. It should be available, but it shouldn't be mandatory -- many of us print quite happily from dozens of applications in many languages without the benefit of Xprint on our machine; Mozilla remains an exceptional case in this regard, one which I hope changes in the future. -keith
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