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diff --git a/pango/mini-fribidi/README b/pango/mini-fribidi/README index 5073088b..39f3f42f 100644 --- a/pango/mini-fribidi/README +++ b/pango/mini-fribidi/README @@ -1,57 +1,20 @@ -This directory holds a stripped down version of GNU FriBidi -library. The fribidi version that fribidi.patch is against was -obtained with "cvs up -D '2003-07-14'" from the fribidi cvs repository. +This directory holds a stripped down version of GNU FriBidi library. The +fribidi version that fribidi.patch is against is 0.10.7 release. The files +fribidi_config.h and Makefile.am are specifically written for Pango integration. -00:18:24 < behdad> please write somewhere in bold huge red font that - you have grabbed fribidi from CVS dated X, with - fribidi_env patch, and you dropped env stuff - yourself. +Like Pango, FriBidi is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General +Public License - see the file COPYING in the toplevel directory of the Pango +distribution. -Like Pango, FriBidi is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser -General Public License - see the file COPYING in the toplevel -directory of the Pango distribution. +The fribidi_tab_char_type_2.i table corresponds to Unicode 4.1. -12 November 2000, 18 October 2001 -Owen Taylor -14 July 2003 -Noah Levitt +Please try not to make any changes to files duplicated in this directory. +The aim has been to only remove lines from those files, not add new ones. +Most of desired features can be implemented by preprocessor tricks in +fribidi_config.h. +This version of FriBidi is modified to support UTF-8 directly. Search for +utf8 in the code to see where changes have gone. -The fribidi_tab_char_type_2.i table was updated to that of FriBidi 0.10.5 -which corresponds to Unicode 4.1. - -15 August 2005 +November 03, 2005 Behdad Esfahbod - - - -From the README of Fribidi: - - -This is is FriBidi, a Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm. - -Background -========== -One of the missing links stopping the penetration of free software in -Israel is the lack of support for Hebrew. In order to have proper -Hebrew support, the BiDi algorithm must be implemented. It is my hope -that this library will stimulate more Hebrew free software. - -Of course the BiDi algorithm is not limited to Hebrew, so I expect -that our Arab neighbors will also find this software useful. - -Audience -======== - -It is my hope that this library will stimulate the implementation of -Hebrew and Arabic in lots of free software. Here is a small list of -projects that would benifit from the use of the FriBidi library, but -of course there are many more: Wine, Mozilla, Gtk, Gnome, Qt, KDE, -AbiWord, lynx. - -Downloading -=========== -The latest version of FriBidi may be found at: - - http://fribidi.sourceforge.net - |