[FriBidi] experiment with fribidi2

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Thanks Islam,

Messages like yours indeed make a difference :).  Anyway, to
technical stuff:

I guess you simply keep calling fribidi_log2vis, right?  While
that function does work for obvious cases, and it does shaping
too, it fails miserably for multiline paragraphs.  If you do
line-breaking in vlc, then I suggest you try using other API in
FriBidi.  It's a bit harder as you need to make something like 5
or more calls instead of one, but it's nothing nonobvious.  I'm
still to put up a howto, but you can see what those calls should
look like by reading the fribidi_log2vis source code.  Let me
know if you need any help.

Regards,
behdad


On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Islam Amer wrote:

> I'd like to thank you for your work on arabic joining and shaping in fribidi2.
> It was my intention to try to work on it once I finish my exams but I
> see that you have already done it. I have compiled vlc against the cvs
> version and subtitles work fine.
> I am not sure if this is important to you, I just want to give you any
> encouragement I can afford.
> I noticed some glitches but I'll hold back on reporting them until I
> have them reproducible.
> You can see the screenshot for yourself here:
>
> http://phaeronix.net/node/71
>
> Thanks again, Yours truly
>
> Islam Motab
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