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Re: Arabic & Hebrew



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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