Indic enabled Mozilla!! Yay!
Posted by Sayamindu 4 years, 2 months ago
Finally got the time to build the latest CVS version of Mozilla to test the brand new Indic script support. I had to specify –enable-pango to the configure script and the rest was the usuall stuff. Took around an hour to compile, and here’s what it looks like.
The rendering is perfect (at least based on what I have seen so far) - there are a few minor glitches with text selection (entire text does not seem to get selected). Also, I could’nt get printing to work - the print-preview looked OK, but when I generated a PS file, I got blank squares. However, this does look extremely promising, and hopefully distros will ship Mozilla with pango enabled.
Also, very interestingly, Mozilla now uses the native GTK 2.4 file selector for it’s open/save dialog boxes - which is really cool!! Can’t wait to see the new file selector in Firefox and Thunderbird.
The need to make entries in Changelog files.
The Indic translators recently hired by Red Hat India (I think…) were for some weird reasons, not making entries in the Changelogs after making modifications to the source files. Some of them, in an even more stranger fashion, were making entries in po/Changelog while modifying/adding the po files, but not while making changes to ALL_LINGUAS in configure.in. I sent in a mail to two of them explaining that Changelog entries are important - hopefully this would be sorted out soon.
what version of pango do you need with that?
Printing seems to be a general problem.
Pango doesn’t automatically handle it (it is not a printing framework) but if the necessary fonts are in place making them available to Ghostscript/Postscript should fix the “squares” problem. Sometimes this means converting the TTF/OTF font into a postscript font …
Anyway - this seems to be the main problem with postscript printing on Linux: that and the fact that printing a simple page with CUPS/Ghostscript is **extremely* resource intensive !!!
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I can’t change display fonts.. It can display thai too..
Why you want to make a browser that supports terrorist languages is really beyond me
i tried to build it pango enabled, but my redhat 9 system seems too old. requires pango>1.5, whereas i have 1.2. can you suggest something?
thanks
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hi,
I was wonderging if you could put pango enabled static binary of mozilla somewhere on the web. It would be so much useful for people who cant compile etc.
-k
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