Arabic support is very important for us. I looked in nabble for Sebastian's post that would allow FOP to work with Arabic, but was unable to find his post, though I found a reference to it, with a no longer valid hyper-link. Do you have a valid link to a patch and/or instructions that will enable FOP to work with Arabic?
Best Regards, Jonathan S. Levinson Senior Software Developer Object Group InterSystems 617-621-0600 -----Original Message----- From: Prakash sen [mailto:prakash....@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:55 PM To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Volunteering to work on FOP development Pascal Sancho wrote: > > Jonathan Levinson a écrit : >> We are an international company, and need to support non-Western >> documents including Greek, Thai and Chinese, amongst many others. We >> have technical people at work in every area of the globe. >> >> Best Regards, >> Jonathan S. Levinson >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Simon Pepping [mailto:spepp...@leverkruid.eu] >> >> Another area where FOP needs more work is support for non-Western >> documents. I do not know where the problems are, but it probably does >> not work right now. Ideally, we would have contributors from regions >> with such problems. >> >> Regards, Simon > Hi Jonathan, > Regarding non-western documents, in current FOP version: > - Latin and Slave alphabets give kind results, since they only depend on > fonts charset (my own experience). > - Japanese can give expected result (my own experience). > - ideographics languages (like Chinese) can give unexpected results > regarding line-breakink (from what I read in user-list). > - Arabic (and probably all right-to-left writings) cannot be handled > correctly by current FOP version: > - right to left not implemented (see [1]) > - Arabic inner ligatures not handled at all > > [1] > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html#fo-property-writingmode-section > > HTH, > Pascal > > Hi, There was some change made by sebastian in FOP for arabic characters and it worked for us, I used it around 2006 - 07 and it is still workin properly.. I beleive the post should be in nabble only. Regards, Prakash Sen. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Volunteering-to-work-on-FOP-development-tp25442059p25492225.html Sent from the FOP - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
