Re: Fribidi 2.0 Status?

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Christopher Tremblay wrote:

> Hi Behdad,

Hi Chris,


> Since the site has extremely poor documentation/news.  I'm more or less
> wondering
>
> -Where does Fribidi 2.0 stand (how useable is it)

Should be pretty solid, but I would like to finish it before
making a release and setting the API in stone.

> -What remains to be done

Basically, the bidi API should be finished, Arabic joining is
finished, but Arabic shaping remains to be done.  And the
command-line tool should be updated.

> -Is it comming out anytime soon? :o\

There has been no demand, so I didn't felt any pressure to finish
it, but I may go and do that later this year.  At this point in
time I believe I'm going to provide backwards compatibility to
the 0.x releases, so it's not a big deal.  Another option is to
clean up what is in and release it without Arabic shaping.
That's a better idea actually.  I may go for that in October.

Are you guys considering using it for mobile phones?  If yes, do
you use UTF-32?

> Thanks, :o)
> Chris

Cheers,
--behdad
http://behdad.org/