On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 14:07, fred wrote:

since you mentioned it, i did a bit of testing with IBM's ICU. it's quite good, in fact... it does kerning and deals with opentype seamlessly. might be worth considering

We were actually originally going to use ICU, until I talked us out of it to try pango first (since it wouldn't add any library dependencies).

Looks like JonCruz was right, though; I think ICU probably is the way to go. Something we need to look at though is how this will work with Win32 fonts; fontconfig is not an option there.

-mental