[FriBidi] fribidi and shaping arabic characters

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, kobi zamir wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Fribidi ver. 0.11.0-2 (current cvs) change the log2vis function signiture.
> it now has a new argument [ FriBidiEnv *fribidienv ]
>
> I see that you can call this function with *ribidienv=NULL and get the
> same results. what is fribidienv used for ?
>
> This change in the api may cause linux distributions like debian  not
> to upgrade
> there fribidi version to 0.11.0 to keep there mlterm, pango ... working.
>
> Any way around this ?

Forget about HEAD.  You should checkout the fribidi2 module.
That's documented on the wiki at fribidi.org.  Please test that
code base.


behdad


> By,
> Kobi.
>
> On 1/27/06, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Nir Soffer wrote:
> >
> > > Does fribidi 0.10.7 support Arabic shaping?
> >
> > No it doesn't.  The shaping support is not released it, it's just
> > available from CVS for testing.  It really is available for
> > release it seems.  I may make a release this weekend.
> >
> > behdad
> >
> > > Is it part of fribidi_log2vis, or you need to call other functions?
> > >
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > >
> > > Nir Soffer
> >
> > --behdad
> > http://behdad.org/
> >
> > "Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill"
> >         -- Dan Bern, "New American Language"
> >
>

--behdad
http://behdad.org/

"Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill"
	-- Dan Bern, "New American Language"