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Re: Arabic & Hebrew




Why bother with gtk. Use the built-in support in JDK 1.3.

 - yba

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Matti Picus wrote:

> I had a look. The functionality depends on an external library "arender" to 
> actually render the glyphs. I could not find any reference to it on the web 
> site, but I could be mistaken. If indeed the library is missing, and the 
> modified GTK stuff links statically to it, I think there is a violation of 
> the GPL lurking around here.
> 
> Here is the suspicious line in the sources:
> 
> diff -C 2 -r -P -x *.o gtk+-1.2.6/gtk/Makefile.in gtk+-1.2.6ar/gtk/Makefile.in
> *** gtk+-1.2.6/gtk/Makefile.in  Sat Oct 16 11:49:08 1999
> --- gtk+-1.2.6ar/gtk/Makefile.in        Mon Jul 10 19:19:44 2000
> ***************
> *** 224,228 ****
>    DEFS = @DEFS@ -I. -I$(srcdir) -I..
>    CPPFLAGS = @CPPFLAGS@
> ! LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@
>    LIBS = @LIBS@
>    X_CFLAGS = @X_CFLAGS@
> --- 224,228 ----
>    DEFS = @DEFS@ -I. -I$(srcdir) -I..
>    CPPFLAGS = @CPPFLAGS@
> ! LDFLAGS = -laX11 -larender @LDFLAGS@
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^
>    LIBS = @LIBS@
>    X_CFLAGS = @X_CFLAGS@
> 
> 
> Comments?
> 
> At 11:03 AM 16/7/00 -0400, Hetz 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?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Hetz
> >
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