AFAIK, webkit under OSX (that powers iPhone) does support Arabic, most probably the system lacks fonts with prober Arabic support. If webkit on iPhone doesn't support Arabic, I don't think an external rendering engine will be of any help. On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 04:19:22PM +0200, Sherif Omran wrote: > salam Haydar, > > the iphone uses a GUI that could be developed using Javascript and html > or using Development kit that runs under appel. I can now see arabic > letters and write arabic on it but the letters are not redered together. > > It uses the opensource webkit > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit > > regards, > Sherif > > > Haydar Alkaduhimi wrote: > > Salam, > > What kind o GUI does this linux distro use, as i know iphone uses a BSD > > operating system, it has almost the same posix structure as linux, but i > > don't know anything about the GUI and as because apple owns iphone, this > > means that there is no way to get the source of there gui. > > > > but if you have your own program on iphone and want us to help, i am > > sure there are a lot of peaple will help you if your program an open > > source program. > > > > Regards, > > MSc. Haydar Alkaduhimi > > > > On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 17:52 +0200, Sherif Omran wrote: > > > >> Hello Yousef, > >> > >> I want to render the arabic letters together on the iphone. Actually > >> iphone uses an ARP linux like structure. > >> > >> regards, > >> Sherif > >> > >> > >> Yousef Alhashemi wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Sherif Omran <sherif dot omran at gmx dot de > >>> <mailto:sherif dot omran at gmx dot de>> wrote: > >>> > >>> hello every body, > >>> > >>> can somebody with a good experience in linux cooperate with me to > >>> compile me the arabic rendering engine under ARM? I am working on a > >>> project to provide arabic for iphone cell phone. > >>> > >>> > >>> What Arabic rendering engine are you talking about? What compilation > >>> errors are you getting? I'm no expert on the subject, but you should > >>> provide more details if you want anyone to help you. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Yousef > >>> > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Developer mailing list > >>> Developer at arabeyes dot org > >>> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Developer mailing list > >> Developer at arabeyes dot org > >> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Developer mailing list > > Developer at arabeyes dot org > > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > Developer at arabeyes dot org > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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