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

[Harshula <harshula@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:25 +0530, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:

> Adding Harshula to the CC list.

Anuradha, I wish you would have asked me to review your port of my ICU
patches before you sent it to the BTS! I could have shown you what was
wrong with the patches you submitted.


Norbert & Jonathan,

1) Is there a reason to continue statically linking ICU instead of
dynamically linking to libicu (3.8.1) which is maintained by Jay (CC'd)?
Open Office used to statically link ICU but now dynamically links to
libicu.

2) If dynamic linking is not an option, when will XeTeX with a more
recent ICU be released?

3) If there are no plans for a new release, can we apply a series of ICU
Sinhala patches as they were applied to ICU's SVN? i.e. port what Eric
checked into ICU's SVN.


Jonathan,

re: http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/6232

Eric is ok with the patch, he's just busy with the ICU 4.0 release. Best
to wait till it is checked into ICU's SVN. I guess you can have a chat
to Eric about it at the Text Layout Summit.

cya,
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