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Re: [developers] arabic text rendering engine under ARM



Salam,
I don't think that recompiling WebCore will help you getting Arabic text
render correctly, coz also if you recompile WebCore, you will never get
the new version in your iPhone.

Regards,
MSc. Haydar Alkaduhimi
http://www.hosting-4all.com
 
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 00:41 +0200, Sherif Omran wrote:
> Can any body help me to recompile the Webcore for iphones?
> 
> thanks,
> Sherif
> 
> 
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > AFAIK, webkit under OSX (that powers iPhone) does support Arabic, most
> > probably the system lacks fonts with prober Arabic support. If webkit on
> > iPhone doesn't support Arabic, I don't think an external rendering
> > engine will be of any help.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 04:19:22PM +0200, Sherif Omran wrote:
> >   
> >> salam Haydar,
> >>
> >> the iphone uses a GUI that could be developed using Javascript and html 
> >> or using Development kit that runs under appel. I can now see arabic 
> >> letters and write arabic on it but the letters are not redered together.
> >>
> >> It uses the opensource webkit
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> Sherif
> >>
> >>
> >> Haydar Alkaduhimi wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Salam,
> >>> What kind o GUI does this linux distro use, as i know iphone uses a BSD
> >>> operating system, it has almost the same posix structure as linux, but i
> >>> don't know anything about the GUI and as because apple owns iphone, this
> >>> means that there is no way to get the source of there gui.
> >>>
> >>> but if you have your own program on iphone and want us to help, i am
> >>> sure there are a lot of peaple will help you if your program an open
> >>> source program.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> MSc. Haydar Alkaduhimi
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 17:52 +0200, Sherif Omran wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Hello Yousef,
> >>>>
> >>>> I want to render the arabic letters together on the iphone. Actually 
> >>>> iphone uses an ARP linux like structure.
> >>>>
> >>>> regards,
> >>>> Sherif
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Yousef Alhashemi wrote:
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>>>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Sherif Omran <sherif dot omran at gmx dot de 
> >>>>> <mailto:sherif dot omran at gmx dot de>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     hello every body,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     can somebody with a good experience in linux cooperate with me to
> >>>>>     compile me the arabic rendering engine under ARM? I am working on a
> >>>>>     project to provide arabic for iphone cell phone.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What Arabic rendering engine are you talking about? What compilation 
> >>>>> errors are you getting? I'm no expert on the subject, but you should 
> >>>>> provide more details if you want anyone to help you.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Yousef
> >>>>>
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