Hi, I opened my developer mailbox after quite a long time and found by my surprise that there is already quite a lot of noise about the next GSoC. During the last few months I got a job and together with my two faculties it made me not realise how quickly time has passed. I am really sorry for my absence and that I was not as available to continue any work of mine during the last few months. I am writing now mainly to excuse myself, as I do not have enough time right now to engage myself and also I don't really feel eligible to run for Google-NetSurf coder again this year. But, if it is still of some interest for you - I have found that the ICU libs (http://www.icu-project.org/) may be quite useful for creating a "heuristical" solution for the problem of national characters(not standard ASCII) in pdf files. There are some functions useful for determining a utf-8 document's language - what could be used later to select a font/encoding to be used by haru for pdf exporting. As I declared myself for finishing this issue, I will try to manage to find some time to get into it(or to manage embedding unicode text into pdf files, if possible) - but I think there will surely be not more than a few hours per month. Also, there are some better news from me - I have talked with my brother about NetSurf and he would like to try helping out a little. He is a second year student eager to improve his skills in a really useful project (not one of these we write at the university just to throw away after passing ;) ). He has similar experience as I had last year before starting GSoC, so I hope that if I was of any use, he will be, too:p. I advised him to show up on IRC - maybe you could find something for him?
Adam
