Kaixo!

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:21:58AM -0600, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:

> 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:

The problem of Arabic script gets very frustrating as the needed glyphs
have in fact unicode codepoints, so use in a font should be quite easy
(compared to other languages like indic ones etc). But it is hit by the
fact the presentation forms are at the 0xFB.. 0xFE.. ranges.

I wonder, could it be possible to use a fontset solution, with a font
covering the range of ascii (and maybe also greek, cyrillic, etc);
and then another font covering the range 0xFB00-0xFEFF ? Then having
XFree86 handle that transparently.

As CJK support with stock fonts is possible using fontsets, the mechanisms
to do it should be in place already, I suppose.

Maybe, that would be a possible solution ?
 
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