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Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support



On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew@sil.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

We are looking at three ICU patches here.  All of them are available in our SVN:

http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/sinhala/sinhala/patches/

1. 3.4 patch - accepted to ICU upstream
2. 3.6 patch - accepted to ICU upstream
3. 3.8.1 patch - not yet accepted to ICU upstream

The patch attached to this bug report is a combination of the first
two patches, with only line number changes to be applied cleanly to
ICU 3.4 in texlive-bin source.

I think, as Jonathan pointed out, we should not consider adding /
backporting the third patch (ICU 3.8.1 bug 6232) at this point, but
should wait until it gets reviewed and applied to ICU upstream.

However, I didn't notice automatic conjuncts with the patch in this
report when applied to the present texlive-bin source.  My tests
showed that it gives very usable Sinhala, including complex character
sequences.

There are two possible reasons to avoid this patch:

- It introduces new bugs to the other languages - which is *very*
unlikely as it only *adds* Sinhala related code
- It doesn't add complete / usable Sinhala - but my tests showed the contrary

So, I humbly request to add this patch after Jonathan gets time to
have a closer look and gives the green light, but without waiting for
the patch no 3 to go upstream.

Thanks in advance!

        Anuradha
-- 
http://www.sayura.net/anuradha/



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