Documents
- A whitepaper on the current state of internationalization in GTK+.
- Raph Levien's proposal for High-quality text in Gnome.
- Raph Levien's Pango proposal, v. 0.1.
Mailing Lists
- gtk-i18n-list@redhat.com is the main forum list for
discussing Pango.
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Links
- Dov Grobgeld's Bidirectional Work
- Existing Text Layout Systems
- Uniscribe - Microsoft's API for handling bidirectional and complex text.
- Documents on internationalization issues in the Mozilla project.
- ATSUI - Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging
- International text in JDK 1.2 - An overview of the TextLayout capabilities in Java 2.
- Omega - Unicode enabled variant of TeX. Very cool typography.
- Fonts
- OpenType - Adobe's and Microsoft's technology for providing the additional font information necessary for rendering international text with high quality. There is also a specification for the way the OpenType works with Indic fonts.
- Apple's font technology
- An effort to provide a complete unicode font
- Unicode
- The Unicode Consortium They don't have much information online. If you are interested in dealing with internationalization, you should definitely buy the Unicode book.
- UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux
- Information about specific languages
- Arabic on Linux
- IScript - a modular system for handling Indian languages.
Books
- The Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0
ISBN 0-201-61633-5The definitive source of information about Unicode; it also includes a lot of information relevant to internationalization in general.
- Ken Lunde
CJKV Information Processing
ISBN 1-56592-224-7A very comprehensive treatment of internationalization with respect to the languages of East Asia. (CJKV = China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.)
Last modified 19-Mar-2001 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>