Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org Control: affects -1 src:xhtml2pdf
* Package name : python-arabic-reshaper Version : 2.1.3 Upstream Author : Abdullah Diab <mpc...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/mpcabd/python-arabic-reshaper/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Reconstruct Arabic sentences to be used in applications that don't support Arabic script. Arabic script is very special with two essential features: 1. It is written from right to left. 2. The characters change shape according to their surrounding characters. So when you try to print text written in Arabic script in an application – or a library – that doesn’t support Arabic you’re pretty likely to end up with misformatted text. There are two problems. First, the characters are in the isolated form, which means that every character is rendered regardless of its surroundings, and second is that the text is written from left to right. To solve the latter issue all we have to do is to use the Unicode bidirectional algorithm, which is implemented purely in Python in python-bidi. The only issue left to solve is to reshape those characters and replace them with their correct shapes according to their surroundings. Using this library helps with the reshaping so we can get the proper result. python-arabic-reshaper will be used by xhtml2pdf. python-arabic-reshaper should be maintained by the Python Module Team alongside python-bidi (RFP#921336)
