On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:04:04PM +0000, Djihed Afifi wrote: > > > > >I'd choose Siragi to be honest. At least one of its missing bits. > > > > > > +1 for Siragi > > > > > +1 > > Although I don't think one student can do it all, it should probably be > divided into two subprojects. That's why I said: At least one of its missing bits. > > * Copy and paste between openoffice and firefox? > > Arabic text or any? if general then that's probably best left for them. I only tried with Arabic. I'm not sure whether it was between OOo and FF or konqueror. > > * Printing plain text files from the command line. > > lpr? Does cups not handle Arabic? Also there are many ways to preprocess > plain text before sending to a printer. > Sorry for the bold question. It won't do bidi and shaping. > > * bidi and shaping for gnome terminal > > That's libvte, I talked to Behdad about this and he thinks: > 1 - It's not worthy as a SoCP > 2 - gnome-terminal will switch to pango at some point anyway. > > But I can't help but speculate that: > 1- He finds it's too easy because he is good. > 2- The pango move will happen in years... move to pango ? Hmmmm. is there a preliminary patch somewhere ? The current implementation IIRC is drawing each character without considering the surroundings. What about fribidi ? -- GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Member. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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