[Indic-computing-devel] STSF and Indic computing

[Arun S. <ar...@sh...>]

There is some interesting information posted to the message board here:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=757113&forum_id=151750

STSF is taking an approach not very different from what I was proposing
for IndiX i.e.

- Do all the Indic computing reordering based on X extensions, rather
  than modifying existing X protocol requests.

- X Server side opentype font support

They're also using the ICU layout library from IBM to do the reordering.
The projected release date is December or January.

They sound quite confident about getting their stuff into the XFree86
source base. But it might be a while before distributors pick it up. In
the meanwhile, there may be some work for volunteers on this forum to
package up their work so that it gets plenty of testing.

	-Arun