I've done that before for openbox. The problem is that you can use fribidi for bidi but we don't have a library for shaping. I was using my shaping code. Luckily we ended up using pango in openbox. The WM first must be using unicode internally. You then need to hook into the strings drawing code and modify it to do the shaping and bidi. I'm CC'ing developer. On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:44:11AM +0000, Ahmed MANSOUR wrote: > I wonder if there is a guide at Arabeyes or tuttorial that explain how to > add > Arabic/freebidi support to wm that don't support it? > > > 2007/3/27, Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle at freenet dot de>: > >Am 2007-03-21 13:49:45, schrieb Ahmed MANSOUR: > >> Salam, > >> I needd to know have list of which windows managers is support Arabic > >> to start translating. > >> here is what I already know : > >> - xfce > >> - GNOME > >> - KDE > >> > >> what about enlightenment(e17)?fluxbox?fvwm?and other light wm? > > > >fvwm does definitiivly support farsi/arabic/hebrew even in the current > >version of Debian/Etch bidi is not working and I can not find the bug. > > > > > >Thanks, Greetings and nice Day > > Michelle Konzack > > Systemadministrator > > Tamay Dogan Network > > Debian GNU/Linux Consultant > > > > > >-- > >Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ > >##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### > >Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 > > 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi > >0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Doc mailing list > >Doc at arabeyes dot org > >http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Doc mailing list > Doc at arabeyes dot org > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc -- GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Member. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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