On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 16:43, Mostafa Modirrousta wrote: > Would anyone please elaborate on what Pango > (http://www.pango.org/index.shtml) is? I just saw a picture of how it > treats Farsi and would that somehow let's more easily use Farsi under > Linux than Chapdiz (sorry, forgot the exact name of that live-cd > knoppix apted for Farsi)?
Pango is GNOME and GTK+'s text rendering engine for various languages and scripts. Shabdix is based on KDE, which uses Qt instead of Pango. The level of Persian support for Qt and Pango is different. I don't follow the Qt development anymore (but I heard that it had a bug with handling ZWNJ that Behdad Esfahbod fixed just recently), but Pango is undergoing a good rewrite of its Arabic script module to support all the complications of Persian. Currently, there are a few bugs with handling Harakat (Fatha, ...) there. A few Pakistani students have also started working on Pango to make it support Nastaliq (which is sometimes a requirement for Urdu) properly. roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
