Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:54:56 +0530 (IST), Aravind Menon wrote: I am working on a project that involves changing Xlib to support Indian locales. I am quite new to i18n and would like to get technical information about the existing i18n framework, specifically the internal mechanisms

Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Akber Choudhry
Aravind, I am working on a similar project. Where is the font 'installed'? Also, what type of font is it? what is the OS? Regards, Akber On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Aravind Menon wrote: Hi, I do not exactly wish to do the entire handling of Indic script. We have already modified a part of

Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:51:54 +0530 (IST), Aravind Menon wrote: Hi, I do not exactly wish to do the entire handling of Indic script. We have already modified a part of Xlib (the XDrawString and similar functions) to handle input in a different manner when it is ISCII encoded

Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Keith Packard
Around 12 o'clock on Feb 20, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: What font name you use? I imagine Devanagari will need more glyph codepoints than character codepoints. Since these X11 functions assume the character encoding to be *glyph* index, I think some radical redesign would be needed for X font

Re: [I18n]i18n mechanism

2002-02-19 Thread Aravind Menon
Hi, On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: I imagine your work is related to character - glyph conversion. Is that right? Yes, we have written some parsing routines for conversion from ISCII to glyph converter for it. When XmbDrawString is called with UTF encoded DEVANAGARI text,