[Smc-discuss] Re:Questions on pango patch

[Sajith V.K]

"Freedom matters"
Hi,

>I was working on a release,which basically includes the pango patch,
>with that patch it should lot of malayalam rendering issues. I could
>see a few issues with "R'.
 > Even though I have pango.1.2-1.3, malayalam rendering wasnt good,
>letters like 'tta' wasnt rendering properly. So I replaced
>pango-indic-xft.so and pango-indic-xft.la files. After that rendering
>was correct. Is this way it is supposed to work ?.

Yah

 > For languages like tamil they have a seperate pango-tamil-xft.so/la
>files. I couldnt find any in malayalam.
Actualy, Arun has created a malayalam nodule for pango. But pango team
decided to use a single module for indian languages. (Tamil team team has 
submited the code before this, I think). One from IBM has created the 
correcnt panfo-indic. It's based on OpenType standard. Qt and Microsoft
also follows the same.

 > I was going thru the indic c code, in comment section it says it is
>an IBM property and all rights are reserved. I am not sure whtr we can
>distribute that as open source.

I don't think there is any issue. Pango-indic is created by one from
IBM, thats all. It's distributed in LGPL (i thinlk). 


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