Dear Chahine, Thanks for the offer, but we already have such an engine. BTW, we are going to focus on Unicode. iconv is always your friend.
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Chahine M. HAMILA wrote: > Salaam, > This might be of interest to Roozbeh and Behdad (apologies if I massacred the > spelling of any of your names)... > I saw in the IRC log of the Arabeyes party (sorry not to have shown up I was very > sick that day) that you were to integrate a glyph shaping engine in fribidi. Why not > reuse Akka's? It's a pretty good engine and is adaptable to many encodings (plus it > would move it from Akka to the fribidi layer there). > The architecture of the glyph rendering engine in Akka is as follows: > 1) you initialize it by loading a glyph map, basically a file containing 5-tuples > (index, lone, beginning, middle, end), where index is the characters' index in the > used encoding (e.g. ISO-8859-6, Unicode, anything) and the 4 other numbers are the > letter's glyph position in the font used according to the letter's position in the > word. > 2) it takes a raw character string (i.e. with the letters encoded in the standard > encoding) and maps it to the glyph using a simple one pass algorithm. > It is very flexible and efficient, so if you ever want help in doing it, I am at > your disposal. > Regards, > Chahine -- Behdad Esfahbod 23 Mordad 1382, 2003 Aug 14 http://behdad.org/ [Finger for Geek Code] If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
