Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Harshula <harshula@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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)?
AFAIK, the answer is no. Here is an extract from the SVN version of configure:
# Not available because xetex uses a customized ICU layout engine
# AC_ARG_WITH(system_icu,
# [ --with-system-icu use installed ICU library])
> 2) If dynamic linking is not an option, when will XeTeX with a more
> recent ICU be released?
SVN version of XeTeX (0.997) uses ICU 3.8.1, but statically linked again.
> 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.
1. Present stable XeTeX version 0.996. That's what we are talking
about in this bug report, because Debian comes with that. It has ICU
3.4 statically linked. Therefore, there is no Sinhala at all. When I
applied your ICU 3.4 and ICU 3.6 patches to it, Sinhala started
working, including complex sequences.
2. Present development XeTeX version 0.997. It has ICU 3.8.1
statically linked. That's what I use for my day to day work these
days, and I didn't notice any serious problem in Sinhala layout.
Anuradha
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