Re: minibidi bug

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Sat, 28 May 2005, Ahmad Khalifa wrote:

> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > That shouldn't really matter.  I can't get your code working.
> > Can you paste the whole resolved levels?
>
> Well yes it does matter. the missing level '3' makes miniBidi miss
> 1 of the reverses needed.

No.  AFAICS, the problem is with bidi type of the text after
"best ".  The '3' shouldn't matter.  Since 4 >= 3 anyway.

> I cant really get to my linux machine now (as its 2:00 am) here
> but I'll give you the levels tomorow.
>
> In the meantime you can...
>
> Quoting miniBidi's README
> > To run the tests,
> >
> > goto minibidi.c at line 38
> > comment "#define GetType(x) getType(x)" and
> > uncomment "#define GetType(x) getCAPRtl(x)"
> > this makes miniBidi use the CAPRtl charset used for testing
> >
> > then run,
> > $ gcc testrun.c -o mini
> > $ ./mini
>
> I used
> $ gcc -g testrun.c -o mini
> so I can run...
> $ ddd mini
>
> There is no -verbose in testrun.c so you'll have to use ddd and debug :)


Oh, thanks.  In the time to debug that with no verbose, I guess I
can go on and make a FriBidi release ;).

> ak.

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