Dear Arabeyes developers, Nadim Shaikli kindly encouraged me to post this information to this list.
We have been working on developing a software library to multilingualise Unix/Linux software. Our library helps writing application programs that need to display/input/edit various languages and scripts including, of course, Arabic. http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/ A snapshot of a sample program (a simple editor) using this library is available at the following URL. http://www.m17n.org/ntakahas/tmpdir/un.png The font used there is Riwaj.ttf. I do not read Arabic, but it looks farely beautiful. However, the font fails to position vowel signs correctly. Look at this. http://www.m17n.org/ntakahas/tmpdir/poem.png I have investigated all the opentype fonts available from the Arabeyes web site. Unfortunately, none of them had appropriate GPOS features. So I imagine that vowels signs have little importance to native speakers. Anyway, we will be very glad if you make use of our library to develop Arabised application programs for Unix/Linux systems. Best regards, -- TAKAHASHI Naoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.m17n.org/ntakahas/ _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
