Hello Fahd: OpenOffice 1.1 uses CTL to handle complex languages such as Arabic, Farsi, Urdu or Hebrew.
The website is at : http://l10n.openoffice.org/#i18n I am almost sure that the current Version of OpenOffice 1.1 supports Urdu. Not sure if the open-type fonts are supported yet but True Type fonts support is there and works well. If you are interested in getting OpenType fonts support then that is a whole different game from CTL. CTL manages the text such as (bidirectionality and shaping of letters). Good luck. Anmar On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 03:28, Ossama Khayat wrote: > Hello Fahd, > Since Urdu is very similar to Arabic in rendering, > I guess people at the Arabeyes.org group could > help in a way about this. > So, I'm including the General list in my e-mail, > and hope any one could help in this. > > regards, > Ossama Khayat > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Fahd Bhatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 09:15:01 +0100 (BST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [discuss] urdu support in linux > > > hi > > I am a final year software engineering student and am currently working on my > > final year project. Our group has been tasked with augmenting the openoffice font > > rendering engine to be able to render Urdu language open type fonts while running > > on the Red hat Linux 9 OS. > > We're in the data gathering phase right now so we know very little about the > > internal workings of openoffice. So could anyone please direct us someplace where > > we could get the relevant info, especially on the rendering engine of Openoffice? > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger -- _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
