Re: [emacs-bidi] using fribidi and Pango

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:24:23 +0000
> > From: Tomas Frydrych <address@hidden>
> >
> > > Well, you may wish to look at the code I wrote for Emacs:
> >
> > I do indeed; could you please point me to the relevant file(s) in the
> > repository?
>
> In the emacs-bidi branch of the Emacs CVS, look for src/bidi.c.
>
> > I think the fribidi maintainer would be interested in incorporating that
> > into fribidi.
>
> The fribidi maintainer, or at least one of the main contributors to
> fribidi, is well aware of this code (he should be reading this list as
> we speak).

Yes, I'm reading here.  No, I didn't know about src/bidi.c.
Until a few seconds ago, I was under the impression that your
work was all implemented in Emacs Lisp.  I will look into it, but
generally, if you think your code suites project X, doens't hurt
if you propose its inclusion, instead of waiting for project X
maintainer to say "hey, your code looks good, would you mind I
include it in X?" which kinda sounds like they are trying to get
your cookies...


> For this, some of the Pango maintainers need to volunteer to learn the
> Emacs unique requirements and discuss the various design issues that
> will undoubtfully appear once we begin looking into some kind of
> mutual support.  Until now, IIRC, no Pango developers expressed any
> interest in the Emacs display code, at least not on the Emacs
> developers' mailing list, although Emacs supports editing multiple
> languages in the same buffer since September 1997, when version 20.1
> was released.

Same here.  Moreover, Pango developers are limited to one or two.
The priorities of Pango are rather different, but Pango has been
accepting patches all the time.  Or to being with, you can open a
bug in gnome bugzilla, stating that to use Pango in Emacs, we
need it to support this and this and this and this...

Regards,

--behdad
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