[FriBidi] Arabic ligatures

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 16:07 +0200, Till Vollmer wrote:
> Is fribidi2 compatible with fribidi?

Supposed to be a drop-in replacement, yes.

> what's the status of fribidi2?

Needs a bit more work before a release, but has been in that state for
more than two years, and people have been using it happily.

> Is it a drop in replacement for fribidi?

Mostly, yes.

behdad

> Regards
> Till
> 
> 
> 
> Am 15.08.2007 um 23:15 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:
> 
> > The fribidi2 module from CVS has code to do Arabic shaping to
> > presentation forms, yes.
> > 
> > behdad
> > 
> > On 8/15/07, Till Vollmer < tvollmer at codemart.de> wrote:
> >         Hello,
> >         
> >         
> >         I need to visualize arabic language. Right now fribidi works
> >         perfectly for hebrew but with arabic letters I still have a
> >         problem. 
> >         
> >         
> >         The text consists of the real Unicode values and when they
> >         are printed they must somehow substituted with ligatures. I
> >         am not in arabic but there seems to be a letter for
> >         beginning, inside and end of a word. 
> >         Is here a library or does fribidi supoort the calculation of
> >         this?
> >         
> >         
> >         Regards
> >         Till
> >         
> >         Am 15.08.2007 um 12:45 schrieb Till Vollmer:
> >         
> >         > Just for the records:
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         > The problem was the malloc(). len should be multiplied by
> >         > sizeof(FribidiChar) (as it is int32) insetad of just
> >         > taking the len.
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         > Still one small problem:
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         > Is there a way to calculate the bytes of the result of
> >         > utf8_to_unicode before actually doing it? I need to malloc
> >         > the buffer before but dont know how big it should be...
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         > Regards
> >         > Till
> >         > 
> >         > Am 13.08.2007 um 13:15 schrieb Till Vollmer:
> >         > 
> >         > > So the calling is ok from your side? Or do you see an
> >         > > obvious problem?
> >         > > 
> >         > > 
> >         > > Regards 
> >         > > Till
> >         > > 
> >         > > Am 13.08.2007 um 08:18 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:
> >         > > 
> >         > > > On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 11:28 +0200, Till Vollmer wrote:
> >         > > > > Hi, 
> >         > > > > 
> >         > > > > 
> >         > > > > The tests are working now. But I have a different
> >         > > > > problem: 
> >         > > > > 
> >         > > > > 
> >         > > > > I am working on a Ruby wrapper and it works fine
> >         > > > > functionally but
> >         > > > > whenever the Ruby garbage collector kicks in I got
> >         > > > > an BUS error. I had
> >         > > > > my wrapper code checked by someone who does that
> >         > > > > very ofter and he
> >         > > > > says it's ok, so the problem must be either in the
> >         > > > > way I call fribidi
> >         > > > > stuff or in fribidi. Attached the code. Maybe
> >         > > > > someone can check if I 
> >         > > > > do it ok. Any help would be very appreciated. 
> >         > > > 
> >         > > > 
> >         > > > No idea.  This is up to a Ruby hacker to figure out I
> >         > > > guess. 
> >         > > > 
> >         > > > 
> >         > > > -- 
> >         > > > behdad
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> Codemart GmbH 
> Till Vollmer 
> Managing Director 
> Tel: +49 (0)89 1213 5359 
> Mob: + 49 (0)160 718 7403 
> Fax: +49 (0)89 1892 1347 
> Yahoo ID: till_vollmer 
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> till.vollmer at codemart.de
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