[FriBidi] Fribidi 2.0 Status?

[Shachar Shemesh]

Harold Putman wrote:

>No demand? I've been lurking on this list waiting to see if Arabic
>character shaping will show up in fribidi. 
>The company I work for is looking at doing Arabic on a proprietary
>display. We are using UTF-16 and wanting to map
>a string of logical Arabic characters to their Unicode presentation
>forms. Is that in fribidi yet?
>  
>
At present Fribidi doesn't do UTF-16. I put forward a plan to support
UTF-16, and Behdad promised he will integrate the necessary interface
changes into the next version. As I have not seen the relevant changes,
I don't know whether that happened or not.....

I'll mention that the Wine project is literally eager to dump the
current solution in favor of Fribidi, as soon as it is supporting UTF-16.

(actual work will, of course, depend on what Behdad did, and my free
resources).

          Shachar