Bug 386367

Summary: Font: support of OpenType localization features
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Andre Saibel <andre.saibel>
Component: SWTAssignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Andre Saibel CLA 2012-08-01 03:21:53 EDT 
The acceptance of a UI depends on the culturally respectful representation of characters for the target language area.

OpenType font format specifies some 'features' to improve internationalization and localization abilities of fonts. First of all there's the 'locl' feature that enables glyphs to have different (localized) forms. 

Many fonts are aware of these features and contain variants for latin, cyrillic, greek, arabic/persian/urdu and -most of all- CJK letters/glyphs. 
So it stands to reason to equip an application with a single high-quality font that is sufficient for the whole world.

Microsoft, Linux/FreeType/Pango and Mac OS X support these features natively, too.
(Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_ko.htm , Pango: http://www.pango.org/ScriptGallery )
I do not know much about implementation details yet, just know that it's the matter of the application to use these capabilities.

The possibility to "switch" the representation of the texts in an UI would be great for org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Font.
Comment 1 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-11-27 07:48:57 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got
resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some
reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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