--- Ken Beesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Osama Khayat,
Hi, > I have just joined Arabeyes, and I found your offer > of a "bounty" > in the archives. A bit late.. isn't it? ;) > I am new to Linux, as well as to Arabeyes, but I do > have some > experience in writing input methods for Unicode. Great. Maybe you can help in other projects like Putty. > Last week I > wrote a GTK+ input method for Georgian script, and > got it working > in gedit. Then yesterday I wrote a similar input > method for Arabic, > and got it working in gedit (more or less). Seems interesting. > The problem is that the Arabic script is rendered > right-to-left, but very > poorly. My gedit does not show the proper > contextual glyphs for each > letter, and harakat are displayed before (to the > right of) the letter on > which they should sit. > > I'm running Red Hat 9.x with Gnome 2.4 and gedit > 2.4.1. > > Questions: > 1. What do I need to install/change to get better > Arabic rendering in > gedit? I really don't know much about this stuff, so I'm CC'ing our mailing list. > 2. Did your bounty result in a better solution? It seems like it's almost finished, although I noticed that harakat (diacretics - umlaut) aren't perfect yet. Stay tuned, mabye more bounties coming on the way... ;) Ossama __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
