[icu-support] Re: Arabic text shaping

[Ahmed M. <amu...@gm...>]

Hi Eric!

Sorry for being so irregular in correspondence.

I guess there's no use sending you that code for instance. The problem
is with my routine that fetches font tables' pointers i.e.
implementation of getFontTable(). Im working on it.

Moreover, thanks for guiding me about layout engine. I had this
(wrong) notion that for scripts like Arabic, it first analyses text,=20
computes unicode codepoints for contextual forms, and then retreives
glyphs for those adjusted codepoints, as many fonts have them. Now I
know how it works actually.

Thanks,
Mugheera