Re: Patches for supporting Sinhala script

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 23:40, Harsha Senanayake wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Owen,
> 
> I have already ported the patches to Pango, but I first wanted to get
> Eric's approval since he was the original author and I had little knowledge
> about the internal workings.
> 
> I'll send you the Pango patches after couple of weeks testing to make sure
> we wont have any issues later on. You can keep my minor patches on low
> priority since they can be incorporated anytime.

I'm not exactly moving along very quickly here, so timing isn't
critical. The sooner that the changes are submitted (a bug report
in bugzilla.gnome.org is best), the more likely I'll manage to get to
them before the next release, however.

> I can get you the Sinhala test data if tell me in what form you need them.

I'll let you know when/if my plans for a test suite get anywhere. 
(If  someone has an interest in working on this, let me know, and I can
sketch out how I was thinking the test framework would work.)

> And Owen, will you commit the other indic script modifications to Eric's
> ICU code as well? It'll be better if we keep pango and icu code in sync
> since other projects like OpenOffice will also benefit by this.

I don't have the ability to commit to ICU, nor the knowledge to do so
if I did. What I'm hoping is that if by keeping the changes we make to
the code in Pango well documented, it will be easy for Eric to merge
back when he has the time to work on it.

Regards,
						Owen