On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Behnam wrote: > 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 !!)
That Connie case is an exception (do they say "beh beh" instead of "bah bah" in Ghazvini?). > > 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! I guess using a bitmap font instead solves the issue, as bitmap fonts usually do not share glyphs. > 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. That's from the page itself. > Thanks, > Behnam Joe, PS. Doesn't feel quite bad when you sign your emails with Joe, AND people see that you are not so dumb! _______________________________________________ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
