Re: Arabic ligatures

I've uploaded a temporary tarball to:

  http://people.freedesktop.org/~behdad/fribidi-0.19.tar.gz

behdad


On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 10:22 +0200, Till Vollmer wrote:
> Behdad,
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> Sounds great. Unfortunately "bootstrap" is not working for me.
> Do you have a version that is a real distribution with a working
> "configure"? That would be very great!
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> Thank you for all the help.
> 
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> Regards
> Till
> Am 16.08.2007 um 21:38 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:
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> > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 16:07 +0200, Till Vollmer wrote:
> > > Is fribidi2 compatible with fribidi?
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> > Supposed to be a drop-in replacement, yes.
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> > > what's the status of fribidi2?
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> > Needs a bit more work before a release, but has been in that state
> > for
> > more than two years, and people have been using it happily.
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> > > Is it a drop in replacement for fribidi?
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> > Mostly, yes.
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> > behdad
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> > > Regards
> > > Till
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> > > Am 15.08.2007 um 23:15 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:
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> > > > The fribidi2 module from CVS has code to do Arabic shaping to
> > > > presentation forms, yes.
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> > > > behdad
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> > > > On 8/15/07, Till Vollmer < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > >         Hello,
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> > > >         I need to visualize arabic language. Right now fribidi
> > > > works
> > > >         perfectly for hebrew but with arabic letters I still
> > > > have a
> > > >         problem. 
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> > > >         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?
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> > > > 
> > > >         Regards
> > > >         Till
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> > > > 
> > > >         Am 15.08.2007 um 12:45 schrieb Till Vollmer:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > Just for the records:
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> > > > > The problem was the malloc(). len should be multiplied by
> > > > > sizeof(FribidiChar) (as it is int32) insetad of just
> > > > > taking the len.
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> > > > > Still one small problem:
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> > > > > 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...
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> > > > > Regards
> > > > > Till
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> > > > > 
> > > > > 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?
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> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Regards 
> > > > > > Till
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> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Am 13.08.2007 um 08:18 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 11:28 +0200, Till Vollmer wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hi, 
> > > > > > > > 
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> > > > > > > > The tests are working now. But I have a different
> > > > > > > > problem: 
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> > > > > > > > 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. 
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> > > > > > > No idea.  This is up to a Ruby hacker to figure out I
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> > > Tel: +49 (0)89 1213 5359 
> > > Mob: + 49 (0)160 718 7403 
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