[Fribidi-discuss] fribidi & arabic shaping

[Mohammed Elzubeir]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:44:46AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote:
> 
> At any case, when discussing shaping options, let's keep in mind the
> existence of the Pango library, which is responsible for actual text
> rendering.  There are (and will be) other libraries, which use FriBidi and
> add more language-specific operations.

The problem w/ Pango is its gtk dependence. For a lot of applications,
gtk is not an option (take for example, AbiWord). 

> 
> The FriBidi library should be restricted to BiDi text ordering.  Another

I agree (but with exceptions!). Other than the fact that FriBiDi
complies (as best as possible) w/ the UAX#9, its other most-attractive
feature is its lightweight. 

But one might want to consider that if you are looking into having BiDi
support, you probably want to be able to display RTL lanaguages.. and if
you want Arabic, you want shaping/joining.

later
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