[Fribidi-discuss] fribidi & arabic shaping

[Chahine M. Hamila]

Hi Tomas,
Why not fix it in an incremental fashion? I mean, it's not like Pango had
thousands of calls... Just fix the ones you need everytime you meet the
need...
Ciao,
Chahine

Tomas Frydrych a *crit :

>
> Pango is not portable. The following is a quote from the
> README.win32 file:
>
> "There are two Pango backends written for Win32: pangowin32 and
> pangoft2. Pangowin32 uses the Win32 GDI font API. Pangoft2 uses
> FreeType2. Neither one is even close to being as useable as the
> X11backend. They are buggy and slow, and print copious amounts
> of debugging output."
>
> Pango really only works on X11, I need a shaping engine that will
> work well on win32, Mac, QNX and BeOS (the current AbiWord
> platforms), and, unfortunately, Pango is not the answer.
>
> But otherwise I agree, FriBidi should do the bidi-layout only.
>
> Tomas
>