Re: U+3000 limit

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:46:27PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> 
> I have updated
> 
>   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#xfontstruct
> 
> to tell the full story on this subject.
> 

Okay ;) Now I understand XFree86's problem. I guess my next question is,
what is the easiest way for US (Arabeyes) to make those characters
available. We don't care if it's 10x20 or any other. Let me elaborate:

After discussing this a bit (and I may be just talking none-sense), we
have two choices:

1. Pick one of the two approaches as per your above link

2. Change the truncating script to produce a file w/ what it truncates,
   (unless there is a separate font file that has the drawings already)
   allowing external apps (not directly on top of Xlib) to load the file w/ 
   Arabic glyph drawings and encode them internally, then render them.

It seems to me that XFree86's #1 priority is optimization for the English
language, and not i18n and then optimization. On the other hand, our
#1 priority is the availability of full Arabic fixed-width fonts, and time
is a big factor.

Given our inexperience w/ XFree86 internals, what would your recommendation
be?

Thanks.
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