Hi Glenn,
On 18/06/2013 11:12, Glenn Adams wrote:
To be more clear, I propose we replace FOP's implementation of UAX14
with use of ICU's line break iterator, and that ICU becomes a standard
dependency for FOP.
However, before taking a decision on this, allow me to create a branch
(on github) that actually makes this change so that folks can evaluate
it. Is that a reasonable approach?
+1, but I think we should create the branch in SVN as Vincent mentioned.
SVN is still the Version Control system used by the XML Graphics project.
Thanks,
Chris
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Glenn Adams <gl...@skynav.com
<mailto:gl...@skynav.com>> wrote:
My position is that it is costing us in interoperability (I mean
lack thereof) by failing to use ICU. I don't see any issue about size.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Vincent Hennebert
<vhenneb...@gmail.com <mailto:vhenneb...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 18/06/13 06:46, Glenn Adams wrote:
> Is there a reason FOP doesn't use ICU for determining line break
> boundaries? The FOP implementation of UAX14
(org.apache.fop.text.linebreak)
> seems to be out of date and basically unmaintained.
According to [1], a
> number of Apache projects are using it, including PDFBox,
Xalan, and Xerces.
I think the main reason in the past has been the size of the
ICU4J jar
compared to FOP’s own jar:
http://markmail.org/thread/krkqlircefpuxlse
I guess the topic could be revisited today. We could consider
adding it
as an optional dependency, or acknowledge that full Unicode
support is
taken for granted nowadays and use it by default.
>
> [1] http://site.icu-project.org/#TOC-Apache-Projects
>
Vincent
