[FriBidi] status of pyfribidi pyfribidi2 etc etc

[Robin Becker]

On 01/04/2015 22:32, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
> On 15-03-31 03:27 AM, Robin Becker wrote:
>> What should I be using/doing?
>
> I wish I could help, but I don't know anything about any of the Python
> bindings to FriBidi :(.  In fact, I didn't know they exist until now.
>

Thanks for the response; the problem is that pyfribidi is not much used and 
building fribidi for windows is not exactly easy.


> You might have more luck if you contact PyFribidi authors directly.
>
> Cheers,
>

For what it's worth I found another (more modern I think) version at 
https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi which seems to work against latest 
fribidi 0.19.6. This version works against 2.x, but I am modifying to work 
against 2.7 or >=3.3. Basically it has dropped the old utf8 interfaces and just 
uses the deprecated fribidi_log2vis function and allows only a unicode string to 
be passed to the c code. The conversion from byte strings is handled in python 
which is easier. So far I have it compiling for 2.7 & 3.3 and the 2.7 tests run 
fine. Of course the tests assume byte strings so making them work for 2.7 and 
3.x requires using b'' everywhere and converting to unicode where we currently 
have u'...'. Very painful.

As soon as I have something that works out of the box I will post a link to a 
repository or some down loadables. The intention is to get this working again 
with reportlab 3.1.x.
-- 
Robin Becker