<div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/19 Behdad Esfahbod <<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org">behdad@behdad.org</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 08/19/2009 02:28 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > > What does such a test suite involve? In the past, we have prepared > a list of base characters, plus allowed conjuncts (along with > example words) for some Indic languages in ICU. Along with these, > we have prepared screenshots of the expected rendering, which can > be compared to Harfbuzz rendering. Does that suffice? </div>That's a good start, though what I want instead is a comprehensive of sequences relevant to a language, with a MS-compatible font supporting the script, and the output glyph indices and positions of rendering that sequence with that font. Then we can make sure HarfBuzz outputs the same. If we have the sequences, we can pass it through Pango's win32 backend to generate the output sequences. Remains, the fonts. One recurring problem with Free Software Indic fonts is that when bugs come up, it's not clear whether it's a font bug or a shaper bug. So, initially we can rely on the fonts shipped with Windows. In that case, the test suite can only be run on Windows, but that's still better than no test suite... </blockquote><div> Now a days there are many online indic langauge unicode compliant news papers available, i was used to to take some sample data from that pages while my testing work, for Devanagari Script, There is <a href="http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/">http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/</a> is good online new paper bbc news provides for most of the script i think i think if you can make any folder with anonymous access, say as a test data people can put some test data there, as well corresponding pdf(windows renderering sample), but we should be carefull that we want latest Uniscribe with OT Specs 1.6 I guess windows only ships that uniscribe with Vista also making a team for testing will be nice thing i.e say Testing Team: Devanagari: Pravin S, .. .. .. Bengali : ....... Gujarati : Tamil : Telugu : Malayalam : Oriya : Kannada : Gurumukhi (Punjabi) : Sinhala : also how to test will help lot some people :) </div></div>Thanks & Regards, -------------------- Pravin Satpute