Re: Arabic ligatures

Is fribidi2 compatible with fribidi? what's the status of fribidi2?  
Is it a drop in replacement for fribidi?

Regards
Till


Am 15.08.2007 um 23:15 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:

> The fribidi2 module from CVS has code to do Arabic shaping to  
> presentation forms, yes.
>
> behdad
>
> On 8/15/07, Till Vollmer < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to visualize arabic language. Right now fribidi works  
> perfectly for hebrew but with arabic letters I still have a problem.
>
> The text consists of the real Unicode values and when they are  
> printed they must somehow substituted with ligatures. I am not in  
> arabic but there seems to be a letter for beginning, inside and end  
> of a word.
> Is here a library or does fribidi supoort the calculation of this?
>
> Regards
> Till
>
> Am 15.08.2007 um 12:45 schrieb Till Vollmer:
>
>> Just for the records:
>>
>> The problem was the malloc(). len should be multiplied by sizeof 
>> (FribidiChar) (as it is int32) insetad of just taking the len.
>>
>> Still one small problem:
>>
>> Is there a way to calculate the bytes of the result of  
>> utf8_to_unicode before actually doing it? I need to malloc the  
>> buffer before but dont know how big it should be...
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Till
>>
>> Am 13.08.2007 um 13:15 schrieb Till Vollmer:
>>
>>> So the calling is ok from your side? Or do you see an obvious  
>>> problem?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Till
>>>
>>> Am 13.08.2007 um 08:18 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 11:28 +0200, Till Vollmer wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> The tests are working now. But I have a different problem:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am working on a Ruby wrapper and it works fine functionally but
>>>>> whenever the Ruby garbage collector kicks in I got an BUS  
>>>>> error. I had
>>>>> my wrapper code checked by someone who does that very ofter and he
>>>>> says it's ok, so the problem must be either in the way I call  
>>>>> fribidi
>>>>> stuff or in fribidi. Attached the code. Maybe someone can check  
>>>>> if I
>>>>> do it ok. Any help would be very appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> No idea.  This is up to a Ruby hacker to figure out I guess.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> behdad
>>>> http://behdad.org/
>>>>
>>>> "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
>>>>   Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
>>>>         -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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> Codemart GmbH
> Till Vollmer
> Managing Director
> Tel: +49 (0)89 1213 5359
> Mob: + 49 (0)160 718 7403
> Fax: +49 (0)89 1892 1347
> Yahoo ID: till_vollmer
> Skype: till_vollmer
> www.codemart.de
> [email protected]
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> -- 
> behdad
> http://behdad.org/

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