Re: [developers] arabic text rendering engine under ARM

[Sherif Omran <sherif dot omran at gmx dot de>]

Can any body help me to recompile the Webcore for iphones?

thanks,
Sherif


Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 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
> > > > >
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