Inkscape Localization

[David Himelright <himelright dot 2 at osu dot edu>]

Hello all,

I've been studying Arabic at a basic level and I recently became  
interested in Inkscape as a pet project.

Inkscape at present doesn't support proper rendering of Arabic text,  
and as someone new to GTK, I'm looking for someone who can point me  
in the right direction so I can try to fix the problems there.  
Ideally, I'd like to connect with someone familiar with Pango and  
Arabic. Is anyone working on a similar GTK project at the moment?

Any insight would be appreciated, and thanks,

David