Re: [Fribidi-discuss] fribidi & arabic shaping

["Chahine M. Hamila" <mch at chaham dot com>]

Mohammed Elzubeir a *crit :

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> The problem w/ Pango is its gtk dependence. For a lot of applications,
> gtk is not an option (take for example, AbiWord).

Pango does _NOT_ depend on gtk. Gtk 2.0 depends on Pango not the other way
around, so all this talk about shaping is unnecessary as Pango already does it
right above the X layer.

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> > The FriBidi library should be restricted to BiDi text ordering.  Another
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> I agree (but with exceptions!). Other than the fact that FriBiDi
> complies (as best as possible) w/ the UAX#9, its other most-attractive
> feature is its lightweight.
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> But one might want to consider that if you are looking into having BiDi
> support, you probably want to be able to display RTL lanaguages.. and if
> you want Arabic, you want shaping/joining.

That's rendering and is more Pango's field than Fribidi's.

Salaam,
Chahine