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Date: 15 Apr 2003 04:34:40 -0400
From: Owen Taylor <otaylor at redhat dot com>
To: Mohammed Sameer <Uniball at gmx dot net>
Cc: gtk-app-devel-list at gnome dot org
Subject: Re: problems with my app "disconnected letters" - solved
On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 07:31, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> Once upon a time Mohammed Sameer wrote @ Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:01:05 +0200
>
> > Hi all,
> > I have a very strange problem and was wondering if anyone can point me to a starting point,
> > My application is the only gtk2 application i have that is displaying the arabic words disconnected if i enable xft
> > Yes i'm using CVS, however i did a rewrite and it's not working since then
> > I browsed the CVS and i've found that after a commit i did, the letters problem appeared, however i didn't find anything in the new code that could be the reason!!
> >
> > Anyone have an idea where to search for the reason causing this ?
> >
> I think i've done it,
> the problem was
>
> typedef struct _Lang Lang;
> struct _Lang
> {
> gchar *name;
> gchar *encoding;
> Lang *children;
> };
>
> Lang arabic[] = {
> {"ISO 8859-6 (Arabic)", "ISO_8859-6", NULL},
> {"WINDOWS-1256 (Arabic)", "WINDOWS-1256", NULL},
> {NULL}
> };
>
> changing arabic to _arabic or __arabic did solve it
I don't quite understand the above. But one problem that
occurs to me is that if the text you were passing to
Pango was encoded in presentation forms like using
U+FB52 instead of U+06B2 for beh, then Pango wouldn't
shape it into connected arabic text.
I just filed
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110896
For improving the handling of presentation forms in
Pango. But generally, text fed to Pango shouldn't use the
presentation forms.
Regards,
Owen
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