Re: Looking for a shaping library..

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at bamdad dot org>]

Shadi,

I have worked with Shachar to help him integrate the Bidi 
support, but stopped for a while.  I am the maintainer of 
fribidi, the library which is going to be used for bidi in Wine.
By the way, better stop the joining stuff for now, and work on 
bidi.  The reason Shachar has stopped may be that I'm going to 
reimplement fribidi, to include joining and be more compatible 
with the model of wine.

BTW, where are you from?

Behdad

On Mon, 19 May 2003 shadi at freesoft dot jo wrote:

> Hi Behdad, 
> 
> I would like to thank you for sending me the joining library.
> I will definetly need to investigate furthure on how to integrate it with wine.
> 
> Actually, I'm already in contact with Shachar but he didnt mention to me 
> anything about an already made shaping library, since True Bidi and shaping is 
> not yet incorporated into WINE.
> 
> I will try to update the mapping tables and see how it works.
> 
> Yours,
> Shadi
> 
> Quoting 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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> > Behdad Esfahbod		26 Ordibehesht 1382, 2003 May 16 
> > http://behdad.org/	[Finger for Geek Code]
> > 
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> 
> 
> 

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Behdad Esfahbod		29 Ordibehesht 1382, 2003 May 19 
http://behdad.org/	[Finger for Geek Code]

In the corner of the dream was the man with the blue guitar
It had no strings but the music touched the stars