On Monday 20 November 2006 21:44, Kia Teymourian wrote: > Hello, > for this creating this patch I solved already the first problem with > joining the Arabic Characters. > I have some questions regarding this matter: > > 1. --- > I need to send the Text charArray to Bidirectional Algorithm for > visually reordering of the Characters . > In class TextLayoutManager > org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.TextLayoutManager > , I check the textArray and if the Array contains any Arabic > characters between U+0600 to U+06FF, > it will be sent to the bidirectional algorithm, afterwards to the > character joining algorithm. > > My question is, can I use the java.text.bidi class? And say that > Arabic Bidi is just in JDK 1.4 > supported. Or should FOP have its own Bidi class which is compatible > with JDK 1.3? > I would use a 'compromise' approach ATM. Use the 1.4 class but wrap it into something which checks using for example classForName if its available. If its not present just log a warning saying BIDI supports requires at least JDK 1.4..
Manuel <snip />
