Re: Patches for supporting Sinhala script

Hi Eric,

I should be thanking you for the excellent complex script layout engine :-)

Sinhala language is spoken by the majority in Sri Lanka, the pearl of the
Indian ocean :-) Sinhala script is not complicated as the other indic
scripts therefore I an not expecting many bugs or exceptional modifications
to the preprocessor.

I am also working on a project to convert  the Tipitaka (the scriptural
cannon of Buddhism) Sinhala/Pali/English documents to unicode, so until you
are ready to release ICU with Sinhala support I'll get some Sinhala
language experts to look at the ICU rendered text to make sure everything
is ok.

Please let me know if I can of be any use.

Thank you.
best regards,
Harsha.


Eric Mader <[email protected]> wrote on 16/09/2003 11:44:19 PM:

> Hello Harsha,
>
> Thanks for sending these patches. It's great to get information about a
> whole new Indic script! I looked them over briefly, and they seem fine,
> though I share your concern about how the change in IndicReordering.cpp
> will effect the other Indic scripts.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think I'll have enought time to get these changes
> into ICU 2.8, due at the end of this year; our 2.8 schedule was decided
> a couple of months ago, and is pretty full. I've been accumulating a
> small list of bugs for other Indic scripts, which I'm planning to
> address in ICU 3.0 early next year. I'll probably add Sinhala at the
> same time.
>
> If I get a few spare moments, I'll try and test your patches with the
> other Indic scripts to see if anything breaks.
>
> Regards,
> Eric Mader
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