CUPS Arabic support ?

["ahmad khalifa" <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com>]

Are there any plans to support the Arabic Language in CUPS' texttops filter 
?
thats where i think the problem is, or thats where it should be dealt with.

if there arent any near plans to do so, we at Arabeyes.org would be happy to
supply a patch. and if so, would you be willing to accept the patch and 
include
it in your next releases, so we can get Arabic support out-of-the-box ?

printing UTF-8 files containing arabic text needs several text preparations, 
like
Shaping and Bidirectionality. the flag "rtol" in the file /charsets/utf-8 is 
not
sufficient to perform the Unicode Biderectional Algorithm (UAX #9), would 
you
be willing to support libraries that perform line Reordering, like FriBidi 
(which is
already included in many distros) or IBM's ICU ??

UAX#9 is here...
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/


please CC 'developer at arabeyes dot org' with your reply, as there are people
there interested in CUPS' arabic support.


ak.

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