[FriBidi] character joining and shaping

[Dov Grobgeld]

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.

Just my ¢2...

Dov


2009/6/22 Sencer Sultanoglu <sencer.sultanoglu at eliar.com.tr>

>  Hi,
> 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 :
>
> http://www.bornaray.com/en_downloads.asp?fn=per_downloads&rfn=en_downloads
>
> 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.
>
> I've also attached samples from the application.
>
> What might be the problem?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sencer
>
>
>
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