On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:46:27PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote: > > I have updated > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#xfontstruct > > to tell the full story on this subject. >
Okay ;) Now I understand XFree86's problem. I guess my next question is, what is the easiest way for US (Arabeyes) to make those characters available. We don't care if it's 10x20 or any other. Let me elaborate: After discussing this a bit (and I may be just talking none-sense), we have two choices: 1. Pick one of the two approaches as per your above link 2. Change the truncating script to produce a file w/ what it truncates, (unless there is a separate font file that has the drawings already) allowing external apps (not directly on top of Xlib) to load the file w/ Arabic glyph drawings and encode them internally, then render them. It seems to me that XFree86's #1 priority is optimization for the English language, and not i18n and then optimization. On the other hand, our #1 priority is the availability of full Arabic fixed-width fonts, and time is a big factor. Given our inexperience w/ XFree86 internals, what would your recommendation be? Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://fakkir.net/~elzubeir/| ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
