I sent off one of the messages from this forum to a friend who is an active part of the Mozilla team (He also works for OEOne, the folks who did the calendar for Mozilla).
--- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> See http://weblog.flora.ca/ for announcements, activities, and opinions Most recently in Toronto: Copyright or Wrong? http://www.rabble.ca/rumble/ ALERT! ISP Licensing! http://weblog.flora.org/article.php3?story_id=273 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 18 Nov 2002 06:34:57 -0500 From: Peter Bojanic To: Russell McOrmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Galeon, mozilla, confusion, etc (fwd) On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 22:32, Russell McOrmond wrote: > What do you know about Mozilla/GTK/Pango? > > We have some excited folks in Calcutta looking forward to Mozilla > properly rendering Bengali websites. > Unfortunately mozilla port to gtk2 is still not complete. All major > components are ready but some of the patches have still not been > committed, in particular the necessary changes to gtkmozembed. For > more information: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121253 Chris Blizzard just completed this patch and checked it in on Saturday, November 15. It will now be part of the nightly trunk builds. > > They are giving a patch for mozilla to compile with gtk2 > http://galeon.sourceforge.net/mozilla_12b_patch > What does this mean ?? > as far as i understand, GTK2 uses pango for text rendering, and does > this mean that mozilla with gtk2 will do indic rendering?? > Can anybody find out/tell me ?? There's a lot of questions and buzz and mozilla, gtk2 and pango support on the newsgroups. But I can't find a specific reference to anyone saying 'yes, now my fonts work'. I just email blizzard to ask him to shed some light on the subject. Will pass along whatever I find out. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Bojanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone: (613) 762-5376 Open Source Consulting & Development | Ottawa, Ontario CANADA -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
