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Re: Arabization, techniques and problems
- To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Arabization, techniques and problems
- From: Youcef Rabah Rahal <y dot rahal at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:15:25 +0200
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Salam,
On 7/11/05, Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com> wrote:
> As for kdiff3, I don't understand why the developer(s) need to
> re-implementing arabic shaping behaviour? It is a kde apps, thus I
> think kde does support arabic natively. The same goes to gnome and
> Windows. Windows uses uniscribe, gnome uses pango, but I'm not sure
> what kde uses. For example, under windows, using C# .net, I just
> assing a string to a text lable widget, and the rest is taken care of.
> Be it arabic or not, a proper shaping behaviour and direction will
> take place. I know the default kde text editor can display arabic text
> without any problem. Maybe the developer does not have the appropriate
> font to test it.(anyway, i've not done any kde programming)
KDE is based on the QT library , which supports Arabic rather fine.
Regards,
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Youcef R. Rahal