[Fribidi-discuss] Re: FriBidi's license (was - my Bidi...)

[Shachar Shemesh]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
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>>Of course, my entire contribution to fribidi thus far has been a single
>>bug report, and suggesting a development direction for the "new
>>interface" that nobody seems to like. I am not a copyright holder, and
>>thus not one who's opinion binds anyone.
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>I really like your suggestion about doing bidi on UTF-anything,
>and constantly think about it.  I have not yet found a good
>solution that satisfies all my requirements:
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>  * No source/object code duplication.
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>  * No significant overhead for UTF-32.
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>  * No dirty interface.
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Yes, well. I did not think my suggestion consisted of a dirty interface. 
I even managed to convince Dov of that during a lift I gave him after 
the Go-Linux event last year. Maybe I shouldn't have changed those 
flights and gone through Toronto after all - a face to face helps in 
convincing of that :-P

In any case, I started working on that, and then realized that it's far 
too much work unless we seperate the character types and the actual 
resolving. Once that is done, I'm fairly confident I can convince you 
how to do that satisfying all of the above requirements.

             Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Systems Consulting
http://www.lingnu.com/