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Re: [ft] Problem rendering Arabic Text.


From: Sauron Sauri
Subject: Re: [ft] Problem rendering Arabic Text.
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:38:16 +0100 (BST)

Thanks for your help.
I will try with some of mentioned libraries.


De: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
Para: address@hidden
CC: address@hidden
Enviado: MiƩrcoles 25 de abril de 2012 12:31
Asunto: Re: [ft] Problem rendering Arabic Text.


> I've an application that uses SDL, SGE and Freetype libraries to
> render text on Screen. Latin text works fine, but Arabic text
> appears from left to right. This is a complex language, is RTL and
> the glyphs are different depending on the possition, and my
> application doesn't care.
>
> Is there a solution to Load and render each character but deppending
> if text is RTL/LTR and drawing the correct character deppending if
> is Arabic etc..?

This is beyond FreeType's scope.  You need a higher-level library like
ICU, Pango, or Qt for handling complex scripts.


    Werner



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