RE: putty can shape now..

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

> i checked the unicode.org and read some of the doc's over there but i 
> didn't know where is the doc. that talks about different fonts and way to 
> represent them .. if u get the link please pass it to me so that i catch 
> up.

this is what i found...
the main unicode standard is here...
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/

this is Chapter 8 that talks about middle eastern scripts (including 
arabic)...
it explains Right joining chars and double-joining chars...
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch08.pdf

this is a machine-readable list of arabic chars and some info about each
like, its name and wether its Right-joining or double-joining....
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/ArabicShaping.txt


> i haven't contacted Simon regarding this work;
> but i think that we should work on the CVS thing first because CVS's Putty 
> is old and experiemental. Of course we need to get a CVS account etc, 
> Another thing is how to add the patch, should we add it as a source file 
> and whoever downloads the code will compile PuTTy with the changed file, or 
> by another way to present the patch  ??

i think u should first ask Simon, and if he wants it as a patch, ask nadim 
about it...

> Ahmad, the main step now is to get a technical doc. from simon explaining 
> how we should include bidi and shaping in putty.

well, i think Simon's doc will only say where to put the functions, and not 
how they
should do what they do... so i think we should start working on the stuff 
while we
await Simon's answer...

i have a question for you...
did u change the code in pwrite() in any way..?

i think we should get VIM and look at its source, i glanced at it, and i 
think its arabic patch
has shaping code... we should look at that to get an idea of how shaping is 
done...

or maybe someone here is willing to tell us a little about it..??

ak...

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