Re: a software library for multilingualisation

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Yaum al-Jumma 04 Rajab 1425 12:14, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:
> Dear Arabeyes developers,

> The font used there is Riwaj.ttf.  I do not read Arabic, but it looks
> farely beautiful.  However, the font fails to position vowel signs
> correctly.  Look at this.
>
>   http://www.m17n.org/ntakahas/tmpdir/poem.png

Will you please point what's wrong. I believe it's acceptable though not 
perfect.

> I have investigated all the opentype fonts available from the Arabeyes
> web site. Unfortunately, none of them had appropriate GPOS features.
> So I imagine that vowels signs have little importance to native
> speakers.

No, they are very important to native speakers but few of them seek 
perfectness. If it's a font issue no problem but make sure it's not your lib 
fault.

> Anyway, we will be very glad if you make use of our library to develop
> Arabised application programs for Unix/Linux systems.

I am sorry I am not a developer _yet_ but is interested in becoming so soon so 
will you please point out what the problem that this lib solves. What's its 
scope (Do I need it if I am going to use Qt or GTK)? Who will need it? What 
are the other alternatives and why this one?

Also, when I tested from the Demo on the website it seems as if it doesn't 
conform to Unicode BIDI. If I type Arabic then English, it doesn't behave as 
should be, at least AFAIk.

Keep up the good work.

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