<div dir="ltr">This is not really answering your question, but I believe that shaping is too difficult to do without a good engine, and even though fribidi can take care of the character order and the glyph substitution, there is much more than that to get good looking output, as well as selections, cursor hit detection, etc. And that's what you get when you use a good layout engine like Pango with or without Gtk or Qt. Unless you have some old application that you want to translate, you should move to a modern engine.<br> <br>Just my ¢2...<br><br>Dov<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/22 Sencer Sultanoglu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sencer.sultanoglu@eliar.com.tr">sencer.sultanoglu@eliar.com.tr</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi,</font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial">I've compiled fribidi 0.10.9 on Fedora 9. I read in the list that it supports character joining and shaping, I use utf-8, and see joined characters using printf on the console. But my application cannot display joined characters. I downloaded font ( bdavat ) from :</font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.bornaray.com/en_downloads.asp?fn=per_downloads&rfn=en_downloads" target="_blank">http://www.bornaray.com/en_downloads.asp?fn=per_downloads&rfn=en_downloads</a></font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial">and I converted it to bdf format in order to use in my application. ttf to bdf conversion seems to be correct, for example : 0x0621 - 0x064A and 0xFE81 - 0xFEFC contains Arabic characters.</font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial">I've also attached samples from the application.</font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial">What might be the problem?</font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Thank you,</font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Sencer</font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div></div> <br>_______________________________________________<br> fribidi mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:fribidi@lists.freedesktop.org">fribidi@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fribidi" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fribidi</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div>