-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 10:44:18PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, several years ago, one (member of Arabeyes ?) decided to put > lam-alef in the pr. block B to the key "b", conforming to the habit > of Arabic typewriters (or MS Arabic Windows? I'm Japanese, not sure.)
I had such a problem with iconv complaining about "illegal input byte sequence" I had an interresting story here: http://www.foolab.org/node/91 Isam did this hack AFAIK. > It's an ad hoc workaround hack. When katoob receives it, it decomposes > INTERNALLY into separate letters lam and alef, and stores so in the file. > Katoob re-synthesizes them into combined lam-alef, and displays it. > (By the way, I'm often admired by the beautiful scripts correctly put > together by katoob. Fonts lateef and scheherazade provided by SIL > www.sil.org are excelent.) huh ? I didn't understand the last part, Thanks for your words ;-) > But mozilla / firefox, which Arabeyes members seem to take part in, > was originally written mainly by non-Arabs. They are only Unicode-aware, > not of the above workaround. For example, when I type in firefox-1.0.6 > (the latest of the stable release), "as-salaam", seen and lam-alef > do not appear combined. I don't use this key so I've never nticed. Katoob is using pango internally and pango is able to handle the presentation form, I guess mozilla didn't take this into account, That's why it's not handled correctly. Well, I can't blame it because it's a hack. Well, This should be fixed but I don't know how. I'm not familiar at all with mozilla code. - -- - ---------------- - -- Katoob Main Developer, Arabbix Maintainer. GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Admin. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org - -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDEcZ6y2aOKaP9DfcRAuhPAKC5TeZCXdxT35+bD6aexc2+UzYNfwCfReJF XM+6TLrqVk4qfB2+k1gTTnU= =3OEM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
