Hi, 1) Lately I was converting my openbox patch to pango instead of xft to render arabic.
2) As you all noticed, gtk-webcore <gtk-webcore.sf.net>, a khtml gtk port has been released. Let's give it a try, cool, It's lightweight, but....... No shaping for Arabic. I had a look at the code... Oh, using xft. Now let's think. Xft doesn't shape strings by itself, And I think that it doesn't apply the bidi algorithm too. Now I don't really know, But I think that this is a limitation, Now it's impossible to 1) run, have a look at every new application and implement shaping in it. 2) Ask all the developers not to use xft and use pango instead. Now what ? hould we fix xft by introducing bidi and shaping ? I'm afraid this might break pango, Simply breaking all the applications out there. Guys, I'm really fed up "NO FLAME WARS"! What do you think ?? please someone tell me that xft supports shaping and that's a problem with my configuration :( I'll get some sleep, it's 6:13 in the morning. cya. -- ---------------- -- Katoob Main Developer, Arabbix Maintainer. Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Admin. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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