[Tuxpaint-i18n] Re: Tuxpaint-i18n digest, Vol 1 #43 - 5 msgs

[assefseer <al...@gm...>]

Hi Bill,

Tux Paint 0.9.16,
as you know, first impression is very important to evaluate any product. so=
,
i think launching Tux Paint 0.9.16  with broken Character will not be wise.

i do i behalve of all arab kids, request you to pay more time to release it
with the correct wording...
where we will market the Tux Paint 0.9.16  in all Educational Forums so it
should be deployed in as much schools as we can.

About the font [motken] copy right, wich belongs to a company called
Maleksoft Developer Co. but i can not reache them because their website is
down,

any way, ae_nice font is very simillar but i thought Motken will solve the
problem of broken Cahracters.

regards
Khalid Al Holan


On 3/30/06, tux...@li... <
tux...@li...> wrote:
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:43:18 -0800
> From: Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...>
> To: tux...@li...got
> Subject: Re: [Tuxpaint-i18n] Re: Tux Paint in Arabic
> Reply-To: tux...@li...
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 06:37:35PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:45:50PM +0300, assefseer wrote:
> > > 2. about the characters: the characters are not
> > > connected... because the words are broken. in arabic the words are
> > > written in one line exept for some characters...  pls see attached
> > > images (arabic2) that show the correct shape of the words..  >
> >
> > I'll see of the Motken... font works better.  If not, then there is no
> > doubt something that needs to be done in Tux Paint, SDL_ttf or Freetype=
.
> > (I am not sure which.)
>
> The Motken font still shows unattached characters.  I'm guessing that
> Pango involvement may be necessary (so that the characters can be tweaked
> before we ask SDL_ttf (and hence Freetype) to render them).
>
> An SDL_pango library exists, but I have not played with it.
>
>
> If I were to release Tux Paint 0.9.16 tomorrow (don't worry, I'm not!),
> would it make sense to support Arabic at all, considering the characters
> are not connected?  Or is this _so_ broken, that it's not worth including
> until it works right?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -bill!
>
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