Re: u2ps - Is there any Arabic mail archives?

[Yukihiro Nakai <ynakai at redhat dot com>]

> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Yukihiro Nakai wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > > --- Ossama Khayat wrote:
> > > > I really like the output as PDF as it seems so clean. Anway, for
> > > > what it's worth, here are some comments:
> > > > - Letters are borken on harakat (tashkeel or umlaut).
> >
> > I need to learn more Arabic knowledge to understand what this mean.
> > I compare outputs of Mozilla and u2ps, and I know there are some difference
> > in defail.
> 
> Mozilla has the same problem too ;).

Hmm, so is there any correct harakat handler of open source?

> > Libgnomeprint supports PDF output, so u2ps can support direct PDF
> > output logically. But libgnomeprint doesn't support some option for PDF
> > mode, so it needs some additional fix for the future.
> 
> AFAIK the plan is that libgnomeprint should support Pango, or the
> other side, something like that, and then it can print Arabic
> too.  Am I missing something?

That's nice -- Pango module should be reusable on libgnomeprint*.

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Nakai