character joining and shaping

[Sencer Sultanoglu]

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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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[Dov Grobgeld-2]

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@...>

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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[Behdad Esfahbod-3]

Fribidi 0.10.x does NOT support shaping.  You need fribidi 0.19.x.

behdad

On 06/22/2009 12:07 PM, Sencer Sultanoglu wrote:

> 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
> <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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