On 5/14/09, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote: >> I need to render indian languages - devanagari , gurmukhi etc. using >> freetype. > > This is not sufficient. You need a higher-level library like Pango or > ICU which properly rearranges Indic input, and which handles the > OpenType tables (GPOS and GSUB) to get proper glyph indices and > position information.
When I wrote my patches to PCB, at last I provided a way to insert references to glyph indices into texts (via escape sequencies); I also added a function to view all glyphs from a font and pick them by hand. this may be not very convenient when the font contains thousands of glyphs, but I thought it gives more reproducible results (e.g. I saw that five years old libraries misrepresented some nagari combinations like "vi"), which was most important for me. Just my two kopeeks, Ineiev _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
