Re: [Freetype] Uniscribe

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Is there any equivalent of Uniscribe in Open Source to take
  advantage of advanced font information for Unicode fonts, expecially
  Indic fonts?

You mean OpenType fonts, don't you?  Two possible routes:

  . Use ICU:

      http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/

    This is an excellent collection of tools written in C++ for
    handling Unicode data (supporting more than 160 locales),
    including collation, text boundary analysis and reordering of
    Unicode input strings (including Arabic, Thai, and many Indic
    scripts).  Finally, it has an OpenType engine to handle the needed
    fonts.  IIRC it works with FreeType as the rastering engine.

  . Use FreeType 1.x:

      http://ftp.freetype.org/pub/unstable/freetype-current.tar.gz

    This comes with a minimalistic solution to support OpenType fonts
    written in C, namely the GSUB and GPOS tables.  It doesn't have a
    Unicode reordering engine for Indic scripts.  Look at the
    ftstrtto.c example file how to use it.


       Werner