On Thursday 07 April 2005 17:27, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: > Abdulhaq Lynch wrote: > > this message is to let you know that the Qt_E project has started. This > > will build on my initial work to arabise Qt/E 2.3.10 which is used by > > various PDAs (Zaurus, IPAQs running Familiar) as its GUI toolkit. > > > > Currently the work enables arabic to be rendered and entered, but cannot > > easily be edited. A 'proof of concept' translation of some of the base > > software has been successfully tried. > > Congratulations :) > > Does it come with QT by default or do you install it > yourself ?? >
Distributions based on OE (such as Familiar and OpenZaurus) already include Qt/E 2.3 so all that is needed is to patch Qt/E so that it supports RTL/Shaping/Rendering of Tashkeel - which is what this code does - with the help of minibidi of course. > > Fonts are also available in the format used by these devices (QPF > > format). > > aarrgghh, fonts... I hate them :) > you, me and the rest of the linux community...:) wassalaam abdulhaq _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
