Re: Arabic on Zaurus/Ipaq

[Abdulhaq Lynch <al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk>]

On Friday 25 February 2005 15:28, Arafat Medini wrote:
> Salam
>
> Nice stuff! Would you want to import this to our CVS servers? And
> continue devon it? Someone of core, what do you think ? I think
> importing such an interesting experiment would be really sweet!
>

assalaamu `alaykum

It would certainly be helpful to put it on the CVS servers and also I'd like 
to put the OpenEmbedded font package somewhere too (easily ftp-able).

Can anyone suggest a simple GPL arabic shaping library in C/C++ to save me 
coding up YAASL (Yet Another Arabic Shaping Library). The simpler the better 
(as long as it works). I found the postgresql one which is OK but has extra 
UTF8 decoding gubbins and has pgsql-orientated data types. I just want the 
shaping and nothing but the shaping, preferably using a 'string' datatype.

I had a look at FriBidi for the bidi side and it seems to do an awful lot of 
things that I would have thought would be better left in the parent 
application - such as mapping mouse coordinates to characters, and encoding 
conversions. Is there a cut-down version that just reorders unicode 
characters? Memory space is at a very big premium for handhelds.

wassalaam
abdulhaq