FYI -----Forwarded Message----- From: Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Anmar Oueja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Gnome Terminal support for Arabic language Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:38:37 -0400
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:23:29AM -0700, Anmar Oueja wrote: > > I was wondering if you have any information on Gnome-terminal support > for Arabic text. > > Does Gnome-Terminal use all of the capabilities of Pango. I can set it > to UTF-8 and see Arabic letters but arabic text is broken (seems to be > missing the shaping part) > > Any light you can shed on this subject would be great. This is done by the VTE widget, so really the person to ask is Nalin. However, I believe the answer is no it doesn't use Pango - Pango doesn't do the right kind of text layout for a terminal, since a terminal puts things in a grid. Havoc -- Anmar Oueja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> arabeyes.org _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
