On Wednesday 21 April 2004 04:04 pm, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > --- Munzir Taha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 April 2004 03:42 pm, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > > > > A quick test revealed this: > > > > 1. This problem is available only in All kacst fonts but not others. > > > > 2. It's valid in gedit, mozilla, ... but not in kde/Qt apps. > > > > > > > > Conclusion: This bug belongs to both the fonts and the rendering > > > > engine. > > > > > > So this problem is not in any of the Khotot proper fonts ? In other > > > words, its not in any of the ae_* fonts ? If that is the case then > > > its 100% a font issue which can/should be corrected within the GSUBs > > > (I think). > > > > More testing revealed that the problem is in ae_* fonts, Kacst fonts, > > Traditional Arabic, Andalus. > > > > The problem doesn't exist with Tahoma, Courier New, ... > > Hrmmm, odd. Well, we really need someone that knows what they are doing > with regard to fonts (ie. someone that is well beyond the click to see > what happens phase). So the same application (say 'gedit') works with > Tahoma but not with kacst and/or one of the ae_* fonts ?
Yes, have I replied to this before? > > The problem as mentioned previously doesn't appear in Qt apps, > > Winblows ... which make it difficult to resolve unless an expert > > help us. > > The problem here (in the future do please make sure its mentioned and/or > included in the post - I had to go to the archives to hunt it down) in > brief is that Harakat characters in between combined characters aren't > being processed correctly and are furthermore adversely affecting the > combining. > > For example, LAM + FATHA + ALEF should produce the LAA + FATHA (the > fatha should be on the LAM part) but no combing in some instances is > happening. > > What needs to happen now is to narrow down the problem to either the > application(s) and/or the fonts. Munzir, take one application at a > time and compare say Tahoma vs. our fonts and let us know what you > find out please. > > I'd also highly recommend taking this thread to the 'developer' list > (Behdad/Roozbeh, might have some insight into this issue). > > Salam. > > - Nadim -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of Mandrake Arabization Project Status http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/mdkarabicsupport-en/ CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
