On 15 Nov 2002 10:34:57 +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:44:15PM -0800, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > > Hi Guys, sorry to pick on the both of you, but since you championed > > the inclusion of Bidi (fribidi) into fvwm I thought I'd approach ya > > first. > > > > As promised (awhile back), I've finally included shaping/joining > > code to fvwm (needed for most Bidi languages such as Arabic, Farsi > > and all of the Syriacs). Without this code, those language are > > simply not usable and so I'm trying to remedy that issue. > > > > Here is my dilemma, I'm including a patch which works on the > > simple strings (1, 2 words in titles), but seems to fail on > > more complex ones without any indicators to why. I'm unable > > to reproduce those problems without running fvwm (ie. I can't > > get the code to fail outside of its inclusion into fvwm). I'm > > also unfamiliar with Xnest and how to go about setting that whole > > thing up, etc. Which leads me to my humble request. As noted > > I'm including the patch against CVS snapshot 20021111 (and > > fribidi-0.10.4) and I'm also including a simple xterm call with > > an Arabic/utf-8 title. If you were to chmod 777 that xterm call > > and invoke it, fvwm fails and core dumps - the traceback doesn't > > really reveal much to me (as I'm not too familiar with the fvwm > > code). So I'm asking for help. > > Mikhael, do you have the time to add the patch?
I will try. Hopefully it does not require fribidi detection changes. If it core dumps on me as reported above, I will #ifdef it. Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
