diff --git a/InternationalText.md b/InternationalText.md index 3edf7db..a786a3d 100644 --- a/InternationalText.md +++ b/InternationalText.md @@ -1,10 +1,6 @@ - - - - # International Text -Mapnik supports unicode text and Right-to-left (RTL) languages (through ICU library). +Mapnik supports unicode text through ICU and has only very rudimentary support for Right-to-left (RTL) languages. This page is to document and discuss improvements needed to unicode text handling. @@ -19,18 +15,12 @@ This page is to document and discuss improvements needed to unicode text handlin * [#558](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/558) - Character spacing not correct for nepali text * [#582](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/582) - TextSymbolizer bug with Armenian letters -## Issues +## Resources - * Better leveraging of ICU - * Does ICU support any mirroring that we are not yet leveraging? - * It seems that ICU *does not* support shaping for anything other than Arabic RTL, but need to dig deeper - - * Other libraries that solve some of these problems: - * In the past developer discussions have mentioned using the [pango library](http://www.pango.org/), or ideas from [liblinebreak](http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/) - * If used Pango would need to be an optional dependecy because we don't want to have to depend on whole GLib/GTK stack. - * Artem is not interested in a pango dependency - * (MapOSMatic is using pango via python: http://news.maposmatic.org/?p=125) - * What about http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz? - - * http://behdad.org/text/ - * http://shapecatcher.com/ \ No newline at end of file + * "State of Text Rendering": http://behdad.org/text/ + * [HarfBuzz](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz) + * [pango library](http://www.pango.org/) + * [liblinebreak](http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/) + * If used Pango would need to be an optional dependency because we don't want to have to depend on whole GLib/GTK stack. + * http://shapecatcher.com/ + * Mozilla bug that has good testcases that could be harvested: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721821 \ No newline at end of file