On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:42:25AM -0800, Moayyad Al-Sadi wrote: > but katoob uses fribidi and it makes no problem > why it makes problems in abiword not in katoob Because it's used to determine the line direction not to apply the BiDi algorithm, Soon i'll get rid of it and implement my own line determining algorithm. I didn't test abiword since a long time, I don't know how they are rendering the text "I'm supposed to know now!". > --- > > --- Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de> wrote: > > Salam, > > > > Well we translated it indeed ;) So no need to ask > > anymore for > > translation! You simply have to wait for the next > > version of Abiword, > > and you'll see it all in Arabic. > > > > Well why mandrake ignore Abi you have to ask them ;) > > But I mean you can > > go to rpmfind.net and download the latest Abiword > > mdk rpms if you > > want... > > > > Well the problem with Abiword is a little bit > > complex Abis GUI is gtk2 > > but it's text field does not use pango for rendering > > and shaping of the > > characters. > > It uses a library called fribidi for rendering > > Arabic text, this lib has > > for now still too many bugs... That's why you get > > bad rendering of > > Arabic chars in special conditions. > > > > You have to know that gtk2 is split in many packs, > > and one if them is > > called Pango this is the utf rendering engine for > > gtk+2.x with it any > > gtk+ app renders standard utf8 chars. So the funny > > thing is that the > > Arabic GUI in Abi will be perfectly rendered but > > it's text field fails > > to render correctly the chars. > > > > Same thing goes for Firebird, firebird as being a > > browser uses its own > > rendering engine called Gecko to render > > HTML,java-script, css etc..., > > Well BUT there are mozilla versions compiled against > > gtk+ with xft > > support so you can get with them perfect arabic > > support and Anti > > Aliasing but I think they are only for the mozilla > > suite and only for > > RH9 or Fedora. But with these builds (which I myself > > use) you can run on > > top epiphany and you get a shoking quality, you get > > perfectly rendered > > arabic sites. And a very nice browsing experience, I > > also translated > > epiphany so if you use gnome and use the gtk enabled > > mozilla you'll have > > a very good quality, maybe I'll ask anmar to add > > that mozilla to > > Arabbix. > > > > Which Abi is very simple: wait till the next Abi, > > and use the dev > > versions: 2.1.x you'll have an Arabic interface and > > hopefully better > > support, even if it is far from perfect! > > > > yours > > Arafat > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at arabeyes dot org > > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at arabeyes dot org > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > -- ---------------- -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user #224950, ICQ #58475622 -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT d-(++)@ s+(++):->+++ a-- C+++$>++++ UL+++$>++++ P+++$>+++++ L+++(++++)$>+++++ E>+++ W++?>$ N+>+++ o? K-? !w++ !O !M !V !PS@ !PE@ Y+ PGP+++ t? 5? !X R? tv-- b+@ DI D+ G-- e++>+++ h-->++ !r y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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