Re: [developers] Arabic shaping and reversing

[Mohammed Sameer <msameer at foolab dot org>]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:52:22AM +0000, Meitham Jamaa wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to the list so I am not sure this is the right place to ask.
> 
> We are working on adding Arabic support for ReportLab (our opensource python-based pdf library). We
>   would like to rely on calling a library that supports Arabic shaping (and character revering)
> than inventing this in our library.
> 
> Some contributors have submitted batches to the reportlab-users list with working code that can
> print Hebrew and Arabic using PyFriBidi, however some users said that batch could not do Farsi (or
> Pashto) shaping. Here is the thread for that conversation
> http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2009-November/008992.html

Fribidi is/was maintained by Behdad. He's Iranian so I doubt that Fribidi can't do Farsi.

Cheers,

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