[haiku-development] Re: InputTools Malayalam - GSOC 2015

  • From: "Jithin Raj.T.K" <jithinrajtk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 21:55:34 +0530

Ok! Then can you please suggest me some projects to Do with Haiku. I would
like to participate in GSOC 2015 !

On 6 February 2015 at 21:53, Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 09:08:34PM +0530, Jithin Raj.T.K wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am new to Haiku. I would like to participate in GSOC 2015. So that i
> have
> > an idea that to developing a Malayalam Language Input Tool for Haiku. Is
> > that already started project ?
>
> Hi,
> Not that I know of.
>
> I looked at the wikipedia page for the Malayalam Language and it looks
> like the input side should be reasonably simple (but I don't know how it
> works on other computer systems).
>
> The rendering of text, however, seems to be a bit more complex than for
> latin scripts. To handle this, we plan to use the Harfbuzz library,
> which needs to be integrated with freetype and the app_server.
>
> --
> Adrien.
>
>


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