[Fwd: Re: [Libtextwrap-devel] BIDI support]

[Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

FYI

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Subject: Re: [Libtextwrap-devel] BIDI support
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:10:45 +0900 (LMT)
From: Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota at debian dot org>
To: anmar at canada dot com
CC: libtextwrap-devel at lists dot sourceforge dot net
References: <400D7E7D dot 9010907 at canada dot com> 
<20040122 dot 005914 dot 01370321 dot debian at tmail dot plala dot or dot jp>

Hello,

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From: Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>
Subject: [Libtextwrap-devel] BIDI support
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:16:13 -0800

> My name is Anmar Oueja. I am a member of an online community that works 
> on improving Linux support for the Arabic language. (www.arabeyes.org)

I know some members from Arabeyes Project since I am one of developers
of mlterm.


> One of the projects we are working on is translating the new debian 
> installer to arabic. Unfortunately, the problem comes when we display 
> the arabic text.

I am also a Debian developer.


> Since libtextwrap is one pipe all text is passed through, how feasable 
> is it to add bidi support (using fribidi.sf.net library)

libtextwrap is not aware of bidi.  I don't know what is needed.
Since libtextwrap just finds a place to insert linefeed, I imagine
nothing is needed for libtextwrap, while text-windowing library
(slang?) will have to deal with bidi.

Anyway, if libtextwrap itself needs bidi support, I will need help.

---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota at debian dot org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/


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