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Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] MPlayer Subtitles Arabic Shaping Support



Behdad Esfahbod writes:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Mohammed Yousif wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 03 June 2004 03:14, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm completely against this patch which imports Arabic specific
> > > code into the mplayer code base.
> >
> >   And What about Hebrew specific code which is already imported
> >   into mplayer code base? (search for 'hebrew' on subreader.c)
> >   There is even an "almost" hard-coded encoding specification
> >   there (ISO-8859-8).
> >   Also, note that Arabic is used by much more people than
> >   Hebrew.
> 
> I don't care much about Hebrew code, but Arabic code is specially
> important to me.

If your FriBidi stuff supports the Hebrew parts natively some day,
please let us know, we might then drop it from MPlayer.
Thanks

Diego