On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Mohammed Yousif wrote: > 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.
I don't care much about Hebrew code, but Arabic code is specially important to me. > > 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. Well, you're right. By this I just meant that my laziness is not a stopper for other people. People are always welcome to add their joining support. BTW, this is a non-issue now, since I'm really finishing up the code. > Anyway, I see it this way "Arabic shaping with code outside of FriBiDI > is much better than no Arabic shaping at all". I was shocked, since I never heard on Arabeyes from you doing this thing. --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
