--- Joaquin Cuenca Abela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still trying to catch the whole mail queue... > > Tomas, if I understand you right, you're advocating > for not using Pango for > the layout. But nothing in Pango (afaik) prevents > us to use our own layout, > using only the more low level stuff in pango > (itemization, determination of > line/word/paragraph breaks, shapers, ...)
This sounds like what I think we should do. > I don't think that anybody will seriously push for > changing our internals to > use PangoLayout... Exactly! It seems you know a bit about how Pango works - cool. > So, what are your opinions about all that? > > P.S.: As I said you in a private note long time ago, > I'm in touch with > several arabic native speakers (starting with my > gf). The only thing that > prevented me from testing the arabic shaper was that > I was not able to find > an arabic keymap. If somebody can say me what has > to be done to enter > arabic characters with an american keyboard in > Windows XP, I would be able > to do some testing. Windows XP should let you install Arabic support from the Keyboard part of Control Panel. To know where the keys are, you can use the Visual Keyboard that is in Accessories or the one that comes as an addition to MSWord. If you want a real French/Arabic keyboard to plug in, I picked one up in Tangier, Morocco for 9 Euros and 50 cents. Should be possible to find one in Paris but you don't really need the keyboard if you can touch-type Arabic or are willing to persevere. Andrew Dunbar. > Cheers, > > -- > Joaquin Cuenca Abela > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
