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Re: Fwd: Re: screenshot childsplay in arabic
- To: Ahmad Khalifa <ahmad at khalifa dot ws>
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: screenshot childsplay in arabic
- From: Stas Z <staslinux at gmail dot com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:50:00 +0100
- Cc: Lior Kaplan <kaplanlior at gmail dot com>, developer at arabeyes dot org, Waleed Hosny <Waleed dot Hosny at sun dot com>, childplay-devel <childsplay-devel at lists dot sourceforge dot net>
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On 1/29/06, Ahmad Khalifa <ahmad at khalifa dot ws> wrote:
> > 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 :)
I think it's better to use fribidi, as it already used by childsplay, and it's
available from every distro.
However, your right about the release date. We just see how it goes.
Stas
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