On Thursday 03 June 2004 03:14, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Hi, > > I'm completely against this patch which imports Arabic specific > code into the mplayer code base.
And What about Hebrew specific code which is already imported into mplayer code base? (search for 'hebrew' on subreader.c) There is even an "almost" hard-coded encoding specification there (ISO-8859-8). Also, note that Arabic is used by much more people than Hebrew. > The functionality is going to > be implemented in GNU FriBidi instead, and that's the place it > belongs too. > > The GNU FriBidi with Arabic Joining/Shaping support will be > released this month. This is good news. > If you don't buy my promise on the release > time, go on and add shaping support to FriBidi, but not mplayer > please. > > > Behdad Esfahbod > GNU FriBidi maintainer > Not sure what do you mean, I already asked you about that months ago (maybe a year?) and you said "Thanks, I will let you know when work on shaping start" but never heard anything else from you. Anyway, I see it this way "Arabic shaping with code outside of FriBiDI is much better than no Arabic shaping at all". -- Mohammed Yousif Egypt _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
