Good stuff. I have looked into OpenType some more. Early on I tried using
the Arabic Transparent with ImageMagick and it did not work. TrueType
Explorer
(a free font viewer) indicates that it is an OpenType font and other web
sites indicate that
it has the tables to support Arabic. ImageMagick
On 25/10/2003 03:24:38 "Chris Whiting" wrote:
>>"Bob Hallissy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>I presume your algorithm depends on the Arabic presentation forms available
>>as separately encoded characters in Unicode. If this is the case, and given
>>that lots of Arabic characters in Unic
> It's curious that the Arabic Presentation Forms got
> into Unicode at all, and a number of people still think
> it was a mistake, a sell-out. One of the Fathers of Unicode
> told me they were deprecated. Even the Unicode specification
> explains their presence rather apologetically.
Well, one
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Beesley:
> > It's curious that the Arabic Presentation Forms got
> > into Unicode at all, and a number of people still think
> > it was a mistake, a sell-out. One of the Fathers of Unicode
> > told me they were
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Chris Whiting wrote:
> >"Bob Hallissy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> I presume your algorithm depends on the Arabic presentation forms available
>> as separately encoded >characters in Unicode. If this is the case,
> The algorithm, and all that I have seen, conver
>"Bob Hallissy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>On 21/10/2003 01:09:32 "Chris Whiting" wrote:
>
>>I have implemented ... an Arabic shaping algorithm in
>>Perl and was wondering if it would be useful to upload it to cpan.
>
>I presume your algorit
On 21/10/2003 01:09:32 "Chris Whiting" wrote:
>I have implemented ... an Arabic shaping algorithm in
>Perl and was wondering if it would be useful to upload it to cpan.
I presume your algorithm depends on the Arabic presentation forms available as separately encoded characters in Unicode. If thi
Is the bidirectional algorithm as noted in
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/
implemented and embedded in Perl 5.8 Unicode support? If so, is there a way
to convert the internal string to the visual display.
I know that there is some free software at:
http://fribidi.sourceforge.net/
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