[Fwd: Re: Gnome Terminal support for Arabic language]

[Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

FYI

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat dot com>
To: Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>
Subject: Re: Gnome Terminal support for Arabic language
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:38:37 -0400

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:23:29AM -0700, Anmar Oueja wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if you have any information on Gnome-terminal support
> for Arabic text.
> 
> Does Gnome-Terminal use all of the capabilities of Pango. I can set it
> to UTF-8 and see Arabic letters but arabic text is broken (seems to be
> missing the shaping part)
> 
> Any light you can shed on this subject would be great.

This is done by the VTE widget, so really the person to ask is Nalin.
However, I believe the answer is no it doesn't use Pango - Pango
doesn't do the right kind of text layout for a terminal, since a
terminal puts things in a grid.

Havoc
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