Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What tools are currently available to display Syriac UTF-8 files under
> X11? In particular, what fonts are available? (Syriac is like Arabic in
> that it requires bidi and ligature substitution, but in contrast to
> Arabic, Unicode does not encode presentation forms.)
>
> Is Syriac supported by Pango/GTK+ 1.3?
>
> http://www.pango.org/
>
> Is Syriac supported by Omega?
>
> http://omega-system.sourceforge.net/
>
> We have a research student working on Syriac OCR who needs some Unix
> output tool in her work and would be interested in contributing if there
> are still bits missing.
Syriac is not supported by Pango, but (given fonts) it probably
would be a few hours to add such support.
Basically, all that is needed is to take the Arabic support and
change it for the Syriac joining classes, and for the encoding
of the font.
(The funky Syriac abbreviation mark is a different matter - it
might take some work to support that. But I think that can
be considered a "fine detail")
Regards,
Owen
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