Re: [Libtextwrap-devel] BIDI support

[Tomohiro K. <ku...@de...>]

Hello,

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From: Anmar Oueja <an...@ca...>
Subject: [Libtextwrap-devel] BIDI support
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:16:13 -0800

> My name is Anmar Oueja. I am a member of an online community that works 
> on improving Linux support for the Arabic language. (www.arabeyes.org)

I know some members from Arabeyes Project since I am one of developers
of mlterm.


> One of the projects we are working on is translating the new debian 
> installer to arabic. Unfortunately, the problem comes when we display 
> the arabic text.

I am also a Debian developer.  


> Since libtextwrap is one pipe all text is passed through, how feasable 
> is it to add bidi support (using fribidi.sf.net library)

libtextwrap is not aware of bidi.  I don't know what is needed.
Since libtextwrap just finds a place to insert linefeed, I imagine
nothing is needed for libtextwrap, while text-windowing library
(slang?) will have to deal with bidi.

Anyway, if libtextwrap itself needs bidi support, I will need help.

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Tomohiro KUBOTA <ku...@de...>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/