[FriBidi] status of pyfribidi pyfribidi2 etc etc

[Philip Semanchuk]

Hi Robin,
I don't know if this helps you or not, but on our project we use
Reportlab 3.1.44 in conjunction with pyfribidi 0.11.0 from
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyfribidi/

Underneath we use fribidi-0.19.6 on OS X or whatever is in the Ubuntu
12.04/14.04 repos.

No Windows, though, so this might not help you a lot. :-/


On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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