[pygtk] Arabic text display problem

[Fredrik Corneliusson]

Hi all,
I got a problem with displaying Arabic text correctly. The problem is
the shaping of the characters that should differ depending on the
position where the character occurs (beginning,middle,ending). Now
they are all displayed as they are separate. I have tested on Win32
and Linux (Ubuntu) and they both have the same problem. The pygtk-demo
"textview.py" have this problem with the "right to left"-example text
as well so it's not just my code.

I know gtk/pango should be able to render this correctly, but what do
I have to do to get it working?

This page has some general information about Arabic font rendering:
http://foolab.org/node/533

Thanks for your splendid work!
/Fredrik