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Re: Arabic & Hebrew



I had a look at the gtk patch, and it is providing callbacks into their
proprietary toolkit in order to do bidi reordering and other input
method stuff. Imo, it is a waste of time as gtk with pango will provide
the same functionality without any proprietary toolkit. Besides, is it
legal to make an LGPL library depend on proprietary libraries?

Dov


Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > If you'll look at Linuxtoday.com - or at
> > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-07-15-027-06-NW-CY-SW - you'll
> > find that Linuxvision.com released some sort of GTK with Arabic support.
> > 
> > Since Arabic & Hebrew are essentially the same (as in right to left writing) -
> > would someone mind moving those patches so we can use it the same as the Arab
> > people use them?
> 
> I didn't download it yet (I don't like to register). But simply from
> taking a look at their site and their features list:
> 
> |* Supports most Gtk+ and GNOME applications for Arabic input and output. 
> 
> The big news. bidirectional support in gtk. BTW: did they also try to
> "reflect" widgets (i.e.: a text label for a control on a dialog box should
> appear after the control, not before it). Anyway - this is a very welcomed
> thing even without it (If only it were free)
> 
> |* Supports text mode programs in Linux console and gnome-terminal for
> |  Arabic input and output. 
> 
> As far as I understand it - nothing new. acon has existed for a while for
> the console (Note that lately it also got support for hebrew).
> As for gnome-terminal - I believe this comes with the gtk stuff, but I'm
> not exactly sure.
> 
> |* Supports a lot of other applications for Arabic output, like Netscape
> |  browser and KDE  
> 
> Read: Arabic fonts (as I understand this)
> 
> |* Automatic configuration for some programs. 
> 
> Easy enough with gtk - simply edit gtkrc. There's alsoa patch to make it
> locale-dependent (that is - it will use different default fonts, depending
> on your LANG).
> 
> |* The ability to change Sheba options for one or more programs without
> |  affecting the global options. 
> 
> Configuration at the library-level. Nothing new to kde and gnome.
> 
> |* Supports ISO 8859-6 and CP1259 charsets. 
> 
> Again - this requires nothing more than a little tweaking of X's config,
> to supply the proper fonts and chaacter map.
> 
> -- 
> Tzafrir Cohen
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
> 
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