[pygtk] Arabic text display problem

[Fredrik Corneliusson]

Tor Lillquist found the issue, it was the GTK runtime I was using
(gladewin32.sourceforge.net) that was not built with win32 Uniscribe
support.
I tried his build and it did not have this problem.

Regards,
Fredrik

On 2/23/07, Fredrik Corneliusson <fredrik.corneliusson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for not making it clear that the problem is not pyGtk specific
> as both the GTK+ demo and pygtk demo has the same problem as well as
> Gaim. I based the assumption that it works on screen shots of GTK apps
> I've seen where it is ok.
> I've attached a zip with screenshots of the problem and one how it
> looks when with the same text pasted into firefox.
> It also contains a python example based on the pygtk demo (textview.py).
>
> Regards,
> Fredrik
>
> On 2/23/07, Danni M. <isotop at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi fredrik,
> > Did  you tried to change the font, on ubuntu though the gnome app, or
> > manually "hard-coding" it?
> > As for RTL, as a hebrew user, most of the widgets works OK, can you give us
> > a code and a screenshot to see what happens?
> >
> > Cheers, dani.
> >
> >
> > On 2/23/07, Fredrik Corneliusson <fredrik.corneliusson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
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