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Re: List of Arabic supported windows managers

Have you used the minibidi.c code in openbox? I downloaded the openbox
source and can't figure out where is the arabic shaping and rtl
functions.
please, I need to have an example like before and after adding the
code to understand how it works.
I guess you must first test if the unicode string is in Arabic and
before calling the bidi/shaping function.
I'm going to add Arabic support to enlightenment wm since it already
have utf-8, and I'm the only Arabe on their mailing list:)


2007/3/31, Mohammed Sameer <msameer at foolab dot org>: 
I've done that before for openbox.
The problem is that you can use fribidi for bidi but we don't have a library for shaping.
I was using my shaping code.

Luckily we ended up using pango in openbox.

The WM first must be using unicode internally.

You then need to hook into the strings drawing code and modify it to do the shaping and bidi.

I'm CC'ing developer.

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:44:11AM +0000, Ahmed MANSOUR wrote:
> I wonder if there is a guide at Arabeyes or tuttorial that explain how to
> add
> Arabic/freebidi support to wm that don't support it?
>
>
> 2007/3/27, Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle at freenet dot de>:
> >Am 2007-03-21 13:49:45, schrieb Ahmed MANSOUR:
> >> Salam,
> >> I needd to know have list of which windows managers is support Arabic
> >> to start translating.
> >> here is what I already know :
> >> - xfce
> >> - GNOME
> >> - KDE
> >>
> >> what about enlightenment(e17)?fluxbox?fvwm?and other light wm?
> >
> >fvwm does definitiivly support farsi/arabic/hebrew even in the current
> >version of Debian/Etch bidi is not working and I can not find the bug.
> >
> >
> >Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
> >    Michelle Konzack
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