Once upon a time Pablo Saratxaga wrote @ Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:21:44 +0100 > Kaixo! > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:54:12PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > > > On Friday 06 December 2002 17:32, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > > > > Thank you very much; > > > > Indeed we will be very happy to include arabic fonts in next release > > > > (and, btw, it will finally enable Arabic during the install). > > I have a thought here, i think the installer is written in gtk-perl ?? > > yes. > > > i think the arabic won't work unless gtk2-perl appear "i failed to find > > info. about it actually" > > It has been ported to gtk2; that is what allows proper Arabic support. > That's really fine, Google is my friend here ;) > > > > There is however a problem with the above fonts, when I tell a > > > > gtk2/pango program to use them the program crashes. > > > > I'm using Xft2 > > Didn't happen to me at all with the cvs version of abiword, using > > texstar xft2, pango & gtk2 RPMs > > it now only happens with gedit (maybe others?) when switching to/from > one of the Kacst fonts or changing font size. > If I launch gedit after the crash it loads the font without problem, > it's when changing font properties that it crashes. Could it be related > to the bad metrics of latin portion of the font? > Whatever i did i couldn't let gedit see the fonts, don't know why "using garnome w/ gnome 2.2" however $ fc-list | grep Kacst KacstArt:style=KacstArt KacstBook:style=KacstBook KacstDecorative:style=KacstDecorative KacstDigital:style=KacstDigital KacstPoster:style=KacstPoster KacstTitleL:style=KacstTitleL KacstTitle:style=KacstTitle perhaps there is a style problem ? thus preventing gedit from catching them here? > > OT: Bayazidi: can you please tell me from where to get the fonts that > > crashed gedit ? "i tried all the fonts i have but unable to crash it ;)" > > KacstBook does. > you need to choose another font, then choose KacstBook. > > (I haven't yet tested with version 1.1; maybe it's fixed now) > I'm still trying to reproduce it -- ---------------- -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 FIRST make it run, THEN make it run fast "Brian Kernighan".
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