Re: u2ps - UTF-8 text to a2ps style postscript

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir fakkir net>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:21:25PM +0900, Yukihiro Nakai wrote:
> > > Russian: http://bonobo.gnome.gr.jp/~nakai/tmp/russian.ps
> > > Swedish: http://bonobo.gnome.gr.jp/~nakai/tmp/swedish.ps
> > > Korean: http://bonobo.gnome.gr.jp/~nakai/tmp/korean.ps
> > > Chinese(T) - Big! 47MB : http://bonobo.gnome.gr.jp/~nakai/tmp/taiwan.ps
> 
> Arabic: http://bonobo.gnome.gr.jp/~nakai/tmp/arabic.ps
> 
> This is the output of
> LANG=ar_AA.UTF-8 u2ps -o arabic.ps --gpfamily 'Estrangelo TurAbdin' ar.po
> 
> Looks like similar to the Pango Arabic output on my screen. Hmm.

Which does display the Arabic characters without shaping and in the wrong
direction (left-to-right instead of right-to-left). Pango does provide
shapring and bidirectionality support, so I'm not sure how that is the case.

Regards
Mohammed Elzubeir