[XeTeX] Linebreaks in Thai-text

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.12.2009 um 00:08 schrieb Andrew Cunningham:

> 1) how do you tell which version of ICU a particular version of  
> XeTeX is using,

xetex --version   (ICU version 3.8.1 [with modifications for XeTeX] is  
used in TL '09)

> 2) how to you determine which languages are supported in terms of lien
> breaking for that version, and

Me, I don't know. Probably depending on the ICU version used.

> 3) can you upgrade the version of ICU being used independent of XeTeX?


No, there is no official way, the libraries used are statically linked  
into xetex. The unofficial way would be to change the version of  
libicu* in the XeTeX sources... but see above! In xetex/libs you have  
the sym-link icu-xetex. It can point to any place. The sources are  
compiled and linked in the xetex/Work tree, which is cleared before a  
new compilation starts.

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