Around 19 o'clock on Jan 8, "Chahine M. Hamila" wrote:
> That said, I'm afraid the use of any X font server is not as much the > problem as the availability of the necessary glyphs for shaping Arabic in > standard XFree86 clients or servers. Yes, the existing XFree86 supplied X output method mechanism probably isn't sufficient to support Arabic, especially when drawing words along a diagonal baseline. There are several other mechanisms available; modern X toolkits all avoid the existing Xlib code for their own more capable implementations. OpenType fonts contain quite a bit of layout information; if that's sufficient for your needs, I believe the FreeType project is working on exposing that data to applications; Xft is the X layer on top of FreeType that would let you get at that data directly. > I can't insist more about the importance of their presence for Arabic. We're all aware of the need for additional layout information for many languages; I'm working to move XFree86 towards an environment where applications get access to the complete font file so that X itself needn't understand all of the layout complexities -- applications (or toolkits) will simply read the font files directly, using either FreeType or some other font library. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team Compaq Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
