On Tuesday 29 November 2005 13:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Arabic letters are not properly joined ad look as if they were > written "l i k e t h i s".
Adnène Trojette has made some progress on this yesterday. See this excerpt from #debian-boot. < adn> ok, I have another possibility < adn> debian-installer is just not using our font < adn> I mean when I remove ttf-arabeyes and launch "podebconf-display-po -f gnome ar.po" on a valid ar.po < adn> either I have an arabeyes font, and then it is well displayed < adn> or I have no arabic (not arabeyes) font, and then it displays characters individually, as if it were using the glyphs in a latin ttf < adn> does it ring a bell for someone? < adn> cause the display is the same in cdebconf and debian-installer, isn't it? < fjp> basically yes. < fjp> try fc-list and I think fc-match --sort 'freefont' < fjp> You should see the ae-font listed. < fjp> You can also see where in the "searchorder" it is. < fjp> This means that is a character is available in another font that is above it, that font will be used. < adn> it is actually listed < adn> in 6th position < fjp> Yes, I know. That is why I included that font. < adn> is there an easy way to switch the order? < fjp> Now is the time when you need to start reading fontconfig docs :-) My knowledge ends here. < fjp> (or ask smart questions elsewhere) < fjp> Other option is to delete all other fonts and run fc-cache -f. < adn> it rules! < adn> HAH! :) < adn> ok, let us read fontconfig doc now! < fjp> What happened? < adn> debian-installer worked perfectly (latin and arabic text) < fjp> How? < adn> (cause the ae font contains also latin characters) < fjp> With only ae? < adn> yes < adn> well, with only ae in truetype directory < fjp> Then it is probably FreeSans breaking it... I think we'll need to strip that to avoid duplicating specialist fonts. < minghua> it would be really nice if fontconfig can map different regions of unicode range to different fonts < fjp> Yes, exactly. I've looked a bit for that, but no luck AFAICT.
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