Oleg, Thanks for this. I just had a look at java.text.Bidi, and was led inexorably into java.awt.font, and from there back to bedrock - java.lang.Character. It's Wonderland in there, and I haven't had time to digest it, but it looks as though all of the attributes from the Unicode character database are now encoded in java.lang.Character. I.e. the CDB is available in 1.4. It was also interesting to see that a significant subset of the CDB has been available since 1.1, notable omissions being the BIDI characteristics.
How is bidi support accessed in 1.3? Must you make your own determinations of directionality, or has the CDB BIDI data also been smuggled in? Peter Oleg Tkachenko wrote: > patrick andries wrote: > >> I'm willing to help (slowly) implementing the bidi support >> (contextualisation and bidi algorithms). Is someone else busy doing it >> ? Is >> the time ripe to do so ? > > Implementation of bidi algorithm itself is not a problem as java has > already bidi support since jdk1.3 (it's hidden in 1.3 and revealed in > 1.4 in form of java.text.Bidi class). So I believe there are no > obstacles for redesigned fop to implement bidi support. > > PS.Actually it's even feasible to produce hebrew pdf using fop right now > (well, under certain circumstances). -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
