Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:44:41 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status) Message-ID: <3E4177B9.78985E43@mindspring.com> References: <200302052016.PAA26626@repulse.cnchost.com>
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Bakul Shah wrote: > > X has forever suffered from fixed cell rendering. GGI will not fix > > this; changing X would. Several companies have done this in the > > past: NeXT, with NeXTStep, Sony with NeWS, etc. > > Terry, your memory needs some sort of ECC. It was Sun who > did NeWS (Network extensible Window System). SGI too picked > it up for a while. IIRC Sony had a machine called News (with > whatever cApItaLization) but that is a horse of a different > color. It was a dual processor Motorolla box. I had one for a while to do some XPG/4 localization on some software. 8-). It had Sun's NeWS on it, and it has the same capitalization in its name. FWIW, I've never seen a box actually running NeWS, except for the one from Sony. > If by fixed cell rendering you mean one-to-one mapping > between a character and a glyph (grpahical shape) I agree. > The situation with Indic scripts is considerably more complex > where multiple characters can map to a single glyph, where > there are many more glyphs than characters, the glyph of a > char depends on the position of the char in a word and so on. > But without kernel based graphics support I don't see any > hope of getting truly first class support for Indic scripts. Exactly. That alone should justify a GGI. That, and console support for Kanji, Hangul, and other ideogrammatic languages. We'll also need it to run forts of Goa'uld software. 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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