Pango OpenType Update
All other modules are ported to new OpenType API now. I really hope I've not broken any of them in the way.
In other news, Pango's Arabic module is now
extended to support the
N'Ko script. I believe Pango is the first Unicode rendering system to support N'Ko!
Seems like
my optimization in Pango's line-breaking algorithm introduced
a bug that I hope is fixed now.
Also came across this
hilarious bug titled "My microwave doesn't work any more because of gnome"!
Labels: bug, funny, microwave, n'ko, opentype, pango
Fast UTF-8 to UTF-16 Conversion Patented
This thread on linux-utf8 is bitterly funny. Apparently
a professor at SFU has written a
patent-pending fast UTF-8 to UTF-16 converter.
He has even got
philosophical about a patent-based Open Source technology transfer model!!
His motivations are even more funny. Typical of academia of course. Just imagine a company paying patent royalties for their UTF-8 to UTF-16 transcoding code...
Labels: funny, linux-utf8, patents, utf8