From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [w32] display international HELLO Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:50:38 +0900 Message-ID: References: <001501c822ab$ccfec5e0$d5101252@JRWXP1> <00d801c82732$0001dfb0$d5101252@JRWXP1> <001101c82b17$8f9ad3f0$d5101252@JRWXP1> <4742C54E.1030600@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195563092 23205 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2007 12:51:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 13:51:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IuSZk-0002CK-GP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:51:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuSZW-0006Um-QP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:51:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IuSZ9-00062M-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:50:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IuSZ5-0005wj-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:50:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuSZ5-0005wI-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:50:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IuSZ0-0001cl-GM; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:50:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.115]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id lAKCogKJ011583; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:50:44 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp3.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id lAKCogOC014832; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:50:42 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp3.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id lAKCocDl028260; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:50:38 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken.m17n.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IuSYo-0002AG-Pt; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:50:38 +0900 In-reply-to: <4742C54E.1030600@gnu.org> (message from Jason Rumney on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:30:22 +0000) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:83713 Archived-At: In article <4742C54E.1030600@gnu.org>, Jason Rumney writes: > Richard Wordingham wrote: > > For OpenType fonts in scripts supported by Uniscribe, that's generally > > the way to go - especially for quick results. Might Pango be > > superior, even on MS Windows, though? > With the new font-backend design, there is no reason why someone could > not make a pango backend work on Windows. But I think we still need a > native windows backend. I'm now designing an API to utilize font-backend's shaping engine. At the moment, I'm thinking about adding a new callback function `shape' in a font driver, and make it callable from auto-composition-function to attach a proper composition property to text. --- Kenichi Handa handa@ni.aist.go.jp