Re: PuTTy: Patch works fine

["Musab Al-Rawi" <musab_rawi at hotmail dot com>]

> --- Musab Al-Rawi <musab_rawi at hotmail dot com> wrote:
> > i tested PuTTy (with the new changes to disable Windows from doing
> > bidi and shaping) on arabic contents of UTF-8 files, the files had
> > arabic text, one
>
> In passing, windows doesn't do bidi within PuTTY (so don't even expect
> to see it just yet :-)

well, i ran the original Putty first b4 testing the changes, and everything 
was fine i.e. shaping bidi, u can read the whole file without any problems.

> > of the files was mixed with english .. and nothing but english letters
> > were viewed .. the arabic letters were viewed as garbage.
>
> I think you are doing something wrong then.  Arabic should not
> be viewed as garbage - make sure your file is a properly encoded
> UTF-8 file and that your PuTTY session is under the same encoding
> (Category->Window->Translation and select UTF-8), you can check
> the file's contents by viewing it in your browser.  If you still
> see strange characters try it with the non-modified PuTTY executable
> to see if you might have introduced this 'inability' (as Behdad noted,
> you should see disjoint characters - ie. non-shaped characters).

there are 2 options that i tried while i was working on the changes:
    ETO_GLYPH_INDEX ---> no further language-specific processing is 
required.
    ETO_IGNORELANGUAGE ---> loses international scripting support
check the link 4 more info
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/fontext_2ks4.asp

when i used the first one things were messed up even b4 logging in, no 
english no arabic letters were showed.
now with the second one only english letters were viewed, arabic ones where 
some un-understandable shapes,
of course the files are UTF-8, and the translation that i used when i ran 
the test was UTF-8

did i go somewhere wrong ?

Sincerely,
Musab Basil Al Rawi
M.Sc., Software Design Methodology
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