Re: Looking for a shaping library..

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at bamdad dot org>]

Dear Shadi,

Do you know that a Bidi-enabled WINE is under work by some Hebrew 
people, like Shachar?  If you do not know, I recommend you 
contact them.

I'm sending you a shaping library in private mail.  The code is a 
bit old, and should need some table updates to reflect latest 
Unicode.

Yours,
Behdad

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> --- shadi freesoft jo wrote:
> > Currently we are working on a WINE version that supports arabic. We
> > are left with introducing shaping and hence i have been looking for
> > a good shaping library which does the job, however it was very hard
> > to find one. Therefore, Kefah suggested i contact you directly since
> > you are the member at arabeyes.org responsible for this, so kindly
> > let me know if you are aware of any.
> 
> Shadi, I don't think there is a stand-alone "shaping" (or joining)
> library out there.  I know that fribidi (fribidi.sf.net) will at
> some point (soon I hope :-) do that along with Bidi which will be
> great.  A number of implementation abound though (Pango, vim, etc)
> which you can peer into.  We also have a some perl code that might
> be of assistance,
> 
>   http://cvs.arabeyes.org/cvsweb/tools/shape_bidi/
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> PS: this email is also being sent to 'developer' in order to reach
>     a wider audience (for possibly more help).
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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