artemp/trac2github — Issue #21: 'Shaping' support
Author: artemp
Created: 2011-10-09 20:08:33+00:00
State: open
Labels: Core_Library

Mapnik uses combination of iconv and fribidi to support unicode and BIDI. There is no support for 'shaping'. It looks like ICU library has got all features we need, it's c++
and some boost libraries (e.g boost_regex) can be built with ICU support already.
I'm planning to investigate using ICU as a replacement for iconv, fribidi.