Re: [discuss] urdu support in linux

[Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

Hello Fahd:

OpenOffice 1.1 uses CTL to handle complex languages such as Arabic,
Farsi, Urdu or Hebrew.

The website is at : http://l10n.openoffice.org/#i18n

I am almost sure that the current Version of OpenOffice 1.1 supports
Urdu. Not sure if the open-type fonts are supported yet but True Type
fonts support is there and works well.

If you are interested in getting OpenType fonts support then that is a
whole different game from CTL. CTL manages the text such as
(bidirectionality and shaping of letters).

Good luck.

Anmar
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 03:28, Ossama Khayat wrote:
> Hello Fahd,
> Since Urdu is very similar to Arabic in rendering,
> I guess people at the Arabeyes.org group could
> help in a way about this.
> So, I'm including the General list in my e-mail,
> and hope any one could help in this.
> 
> regards,
> Ossama Khayat
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fahd Bhatty <elevenzeroone at yahoo dot co dot uk>
> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 09:15:01 +0100 (BST)
> To: users at openoffice dot org, discuss at openoffice dot org
> Subject: [discuss] urdu support in linux 
> 
> > hi 
> > I am a final year software engineering student and am currently working on my final year project. Our group has been tasked with augmenting the openoffice font rendering engine to be able to render Urdu language open type fonts while running on the Red hat Linux 9 OS. 
> > We're in the data gathering phase right now so we know very little about the internal workings of openoffice. So could anyone please direct us someplace where we could get the relevant info, especially on the rendering engine of Openoffice?
> > 
> > 
> > 
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