Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support
Dear Anoradha,
On So, 20 Apr 2008, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> In any case, it looks like this patch does not address the issues in
> <http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/6232>; I notice it includes
> SF_MPRE_FIXUP in the SINH_SCRIPT_FLAGS, one of the things that is
> specifically mentioned as a problem in that report. As such, it may
> not be a completely satisfactory solution.
>
> Because of that ICU ticket, I believe that even the current XeTeX
> trunk, using ICU 3.8.1, may still have some problems with Sinhala. I
> considered applying the patch from that report, but prefer to wait
> until it has been reviewed and accepted by the ICU team, as this is a
> fairly complex area and I don't know the code that well. The report
> specifically asks for some points to be reviewed/checked, and this
> has not yet been done, AFAICT.
Could you please comment on that?
Best wishes
Norbert
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