Re: Invalid UTF-8 for Arabic

>> Thanks for the response.
>>
>> Your output is what I get from fribidi 0.10.9, but that doesn't do 
>> Arabic joining. Other than that BOM mark, the Windows output from 
>> 0.19.1 is correct and matches what other non-Fribidi-based, bidi 
>> programs do.
>>
>>   
> I should just point out, as an aside, that the Windows joining is font 
> aware. If a certain letter needs to have a left/right join, but the 
> font does not have the right glyph, then Windows will use (don't 
> remember the details) the right only or left only joined glyph.
>
> Not really relevant to the discussion, but I should point out that 
> logical only joining is not full proof.

Thanks for the heads up. In this case, I control the font being used as 
well, so I'll just make sure it has all the joining glyphs.

Out of curiosity, how is this handled on other platforms?

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Yoann Roman