Title: Arabic line spacing problem
Thanks for all the interest and suggestions. I'm gradually trying to follow up on them.
Here are screen shots of the same screen in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. The xterm window used to do the captures covers only a non-text area of the screen.
(This message is slightly modified from a reply I made to John Boncek off list:)
On Thursday 2005.04.28 12:09:36 -0500, Boncek, John wrote:
> I am willing to try that, but how do I tell what font is actually getting
> selected?
That's a good question. It would probably be nice to know programmat
Hi John,
I believe that you have a font problem that you can diagnose using a font
editor. Both Arabic and Hebrew fonts often have much smaller letters per
point size than Western fonts in order to leave room for above and below
line diacritics.
In any event, it would help if you could tell us
Screenshots?
roozbeh
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 09:10 -0500, Boncek, John wrote:
> I have an application with internationalized text display working well,
> mostly, using GTK 2.2.4, pango 1.2.5, and UTF-8. It runs under MontaVista
> Linux and uses gdk_draw_layout to draw all text. However, I have a
I have an application with internationalized text display working well,
mostly, using GTK 2.2.4, pango 1.2.5, and UTF-8. It runs under MontaVista
Linux and uses gdk_draw_layout to draw all text. However, I have a
problem with the application in Arabic. Spaces between lines in
multi-line Arabic t
