Behdad, > First of all: There are two Behnam's on this list interested in > font issues! > Not to mention many more people with names starting or ending with "beh"! (like Connie for example !!)
> Well, here is the problem, as Behnam Esfahbod mentioned earlier, > the isolated letters (those that do not join to the left or right > letters) and Persian YE and KE are those that are drawn with the > small (bitmap?) font. > > And here is my explanation of the cause of the problem (just > guessing from the symptoms, but pretty sure that's it): First, > the correct font (big one) do not have glyphs for Persian Ye and > Ke letters. And second one should be in the engine: The > isolated glyphs are shared between Arabic block (0600) and > Arabic Presentation Forms B (FB00) in the font, and Mozilla and > any other Arabic shaping engine maps the isolated letters to the > Forms B block, but the rendering engine refuses to draw them, as > its simply using the glyph for the 0600 codepoint. It should be > pretty simple to hack a workaround in the Mozilla codebase. Send > me an iBook and I will do that in a week. > I guess you got it right. I don't understand the programming part but I'm familiar with Arabic Presentation Forms. Let's hope Panther did the needed work. It's more practical than sending you an iBook. Besides, I have a desktop computer! A friend of mine in Italy has Panther installed and he told me that everything on his browser is now appearing normal with the exception of dotted Yeh, which I don't think is related to the same issue. Thanks, Behnam > > On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Behnam wrote: > >> On 2/11/03 3:30 AM, from the address: [EMAIL PROTECTED], you >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> We are celebrating Halloween over here this weekend so I've prepared a >>> real SCARY treat for you: BBC Persian site as seen on Mac OS X. >>> >>> students.washington.edu/irina/MacOSX_IE5.2.gif >>> >>> students.washington.edu/irina/MacOSX_Moz1.4.gif >>> >>> students.washington.edu/irina/MacOSX_Safari1.0.gif >>> >>> What is the cause of the font size changes in the latter two?? I don't see >>> a pattern. >>> >>> -Connie >>> >> >> I didnšt receive the actual screen shots but I have a pretty good idea what >> they look like! >> Now you know what drives me in this fonts and keyboard quagmire ! >> I second Connie and hope somebody can explain the cause of these problems. >> All I know is that a part of it is due to the limitations of the text engine >> of OS X which is supposedly improved in Panther (OS 10.3) >> The box of Panther is sitting on my desk and I intend to install it next >> week. I'll let you know if I can confirm the promised improvements. >> >> Behnam >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FarsiWeb mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb >> >> _______________________________________________ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
