Re: Fwd: Re: screenshot childsplay in arabic

[Ahmad Khalifa <ahmad at khalifa dot ws>]

Quoting Stas Z <staslinux at gmail dot com>:
> Perhaps you missed parts of yesterdays discussions so I will just
> summarize it here:
>
> childsplay uses a Python binding to fribidi to do the RTL work.
> The disconnection of the characters was reported.
> The solution to this is called 'shaping' and seems to be available
> in the CVS of fribidi.

WOW, fribidi still doesn't have shaping support ? Didn't know that.

> The author of the Python fribidi bindings has contacted the people
> from fribidi and they agreed to release a new version of fribidi with
> the 'shaping' support.
> As soon as the new version is released and the Python bindings are
> updated childsplay will be able to fix the problem of the disconnected
> characters.

Well, you could either wait for the next release if they're serious
about it (Its been like 2 years for shaping to be in fribidi), or you
could port the shaping code from miniBidi (or any other source).
Porting wouldn't need much maintainance and would require a few hours,
but it seems that without doubt using fribidi's shaping would be much
easier and cleaner. Your call :)


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Salam,
Ahmad Khalifa