Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] [Stellarium] BiDi support

[Usama A. <ua...@ay...>]

Hi Fabien,

Thanks for your quick respond.
Sorry, I can't code. If you can give me detailed hints it would be
appreciated.
I might find some one who is willing to help.

Regards,
Usama Akkad

Fabien Chéreau wrote:
> Hi Usama,
> Yes this problem is a known bug. The rendering of text in the sky is
> performed using home-made code (using SFont class), not using Qt
> features.
> I already attempted to replace this code with native qt display but I
> had problems so far:
> 1- You cannot specify a non integer position to draw text on the
> QGraphicsView using Qt, so the text looks like it jumps from pixel to
> pixel which is quite ugly.
> 2- It is quite slow
> 
> I more or less have an idea (given by a Qt developer) how to redo
> that, but it's not trivial, so I doubt it will be done before the next
> release 0.10.0 which is approaching quickly. That said, it will be
> done at some point, so you don't waist your time translating into
> Arabic.
> 
> There is also not too much point trying to hack the current SFont
> code, because Arabic is more complicated than just reversing the text,
> and also because the current system don't support very nicely Chinese
> and other characters.
> 
> If you can code and is interested to work on that, I can give you
> detailed hints.
> 
> Cheers,
> Fabien
>