Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

[Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew@sil.org>]

On 22 Apr 2008, at 10:47 am, Harshula wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:26 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
> > No, I was asking what does that mean for the Debian packages. The
> > situation is that TL2008 will not make it into lenny. That is for  
> > sure.
> >
> > I am still undecided, especially due to Jonathan's remarks about
> > possible (but unprobable) changes to other Indian scripts, what to  
> > do.
>
> Basically, the two options are:
>
> a) Add all of Eric's ICU checkins that add Sinhala support:
> http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/18370
> http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/18491
> http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/19979
> http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/19159
> http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/20656
>
> You will add adequate Sinhala (Sri Lankan script) support and you will
> not interfere with the Indian scripts.

I am doubtful that these will apply cleanly to libs/icu-xetex in  
TL2007, because of the additions (including at least one  
OpenTypeLayoutEngine API change) used for XeTeX. So it will require  
some care to merge the changes correctly. I don't have time to look  
into it, at least for this week, sorry.

Jonathan