CRULP (www.crulp.org) announces successful deployment of open source Pango rendering engine onto Symbian mobile development platform.
This engine allows rendering of complex Asian writing systems through Open Type fonts. Please visit http://www.crulp.org/research/Project-Details/ALSMP.htm for some details.
The current work has been on Arabic script. The picture shows Nafees Nastalique Open Type Font rendered on Nokia E51. The project aims to continue to investigate deploying Pango on Adroid mobile platform by Google and develop training material to enable the same for other scripts.
The work has been completed through PAN Localization project (www.panl10n.net), with the support of IDRC, Canada.
For more information:
Sarmad Hussain
Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (www.crulp.org)
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (www.nu.edu.pk)
B Block, Faisal Town
Lahore, PAKISTAN
Ph: +92 42-111 128 128 (ext. 241, 315)
Fax: +92 42-516 5232