Hi Caolán, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:50:24 +0100, Caolán McNamara <caol...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 09:42 +0900, Takeshi Abe wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am now wondering how we can approach support for ideographic variation >> sequences >> (IVS) in LibreOffice, which has been long requested as you can see at [1]. > > For our Linux story anyway I wonder why (these are new to me) icu > doesn't know about these already and "do the right thing" at least for > the purposes of rendering text. Maybe a dig into the icu trac on the ivs > search terms might throw up some additional info ? Thank you for your suggestion! Now I tried mining its trac and repository with keyword 'variation sequence/selector', but got few relevant items. Anyway I will continue exploring ICU for further information.
> >> So far, having read [2] about Mozilla's case, I think HarfBuzz looks >> promising for >> the purpose. And employing the library has already been mentioned [3] in >> somewhat >> different context in this list. > > Yeah. FWIW it's also quite possible that icu might itself eventually end > up sitting on top of harfbuzz. That's great, even if it would take some time. Cheers, -- Takeshi Abe _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
