On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Anmar Oueja wrote: > hehe.. well we are first determining Newt support for utf-8 so we can > start hacking in fribidi. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Roozbeh said that you will release fribidi with shaping come March 5th. > Is it possible to get that now so we can start testing.
FriBidi with shaping would be available in March, but before that there are lots of things that can be done: 1. Clean Unicode support in ncurses and slang. 2. Clean Unicode support in newt (requires 1). And by Unicode I do not simply mean UTF-8, but things like Zero Width characters, etc. Then you can on more step, to: 3. Right-to-left support in ncurses and slang. 4. Right-to-left support in newt. This definitely needs FriBidi. But there are things that are not related to FriBidi, for example right-to-left dialogs. And even if FriBidi takes toooooo long to be out, you can use the current FriBidi code (without shaping) and port it later. So, I hope you have been convinced that FriBidi is not blocking your way ;). Yes, I know that first making something that writes Arabic i some random places and then trying to fix that is easier than first fixing that and then learn it how to write Arabic ;-). behdad > Salam > > Anmar _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
