On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:44:15PM -0800, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > Hi Guys, sorry to pick on the both of you, but since you championed > the inclusion of Bidi (fribidi) into fvwm I thought I'd approach ya > first. > > As promised (awhile back), I've finally included shaping/joining > code to fvwm (needed for most Bidi languages such as Arabic, Farsi > and all of the Syriacs). Without this code, those language are > simply not usable and so I'm trying to remedy that issue. > > Here is my dilemma, I'm including a patch which works on the > simple strings (1, 2 words in titles), but seems to fail on > more complex ones without any indicators to why. I'm unable > to reproduce those problems without running fvwm (ie. I can't > get the code to fail outside of its inclusion into fvwm). I'm > also unfamiliar with Xnest and how to go about setting that whole > thing up, etc. Which leads me to my humble request. As noted > I'm including the patch against CVS snapshot 20021111 (and > fribidi-0.10.4) and I'm also including a simple xterm call with > an Arabic/utf-8 title. If you were to chmod 777 that xterm call > and invoke it, fvwm fails and core dumps - the traceback doesn't > really reveal much to me (as I'm not too familiar with the fvwm > code). So I'm asking for help. >
Mikhael, do you have the time to add the patch? Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
