Re: [Indic-computing-devel] libxindic

[Krishnamurthy N. <kn...@ya...>]

Hi Alok,

--- Alok Kumar <al...@ya...> wrote:
>
http://web.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/user/aatharuv/projects/xindic/
> Just want to know if any of you have tried this.
> 

Thought I will immediately reply, but forgot. I took a
look at the source code of libxindic. IMHO, the author
seems to have fallen into some of the very familiar
traps. Here are my observations :

1. The author doesn't make a distinction between 
script and language. This is subtle, but very    
important.

2. The author assumes a direct 1-1 mapping b/n Unicode
character code points and glyphs of the currently
active font in X for the current 'Display', which is
again wrong.

3. The author hard-coded glyph composition methods for
various scripts (to whatever extent he understood the
languages and scripts he attempted to implement) into
the source code itself, which again is a very bad
practice.

Overall, you could just play around with it but it's
far from becoming a generic base for Indic X app
development.

regards,

Nagarajan


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