Pango RPMS question was Re: Pango status, arabic support

[Hassan Aurag <aurag crm umontreal ca>]

 I got the rpms installed and launched the testgtk to look at some 
arabic text displayed and maybe use testtext to write some arabic 
text.

 However, the only fonts I got installed for arabic are the ones that 
come with Axmedit from the great Langbox International folks.

 And it seems those don't work since I can see hebrew text but no 
arabic text. Hebrew fonts come with stock RedHat, but no arabic fonts. 
Can someone give a pointer to fonts preferably in rpm format that I 
can install so as to use pango for some arabic testing?

  

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 6/12/00, 7:27:17 PM, Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@mandrakesoft.com> wrote 
regarding Re: Pango status, arabic support:


> Kaixo!

> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:25:13PM +0000, Hassan Aurag wrote:

> > > It was asked on this list if it is possible to write arabic
> > > "under gnome". If one is willing to compile gtk+ with pango-support,
> > > it will work.
> > > I have not gotten any feed-back of the sort
> > >   "the shaper produces something strange in situation X",
> > > so I might assume it is more-than-less ok :)
> >
> >  Ok, I am ready for testing, but not for compiling. Does one really
> > need to recompile gtk+?
> >  Is it possible to get one big fat statically linked tar.gz of pango?

> You can try to get the pre-compiled snapshots from 
http://www.gnome.org/;
> they are in rpm format compiled for Linux/i386. Note however that, as 
often
> with projects in heavy development, some things can improve or broke 
from
> one version to the other; and you may in some cases want to experiment 
with
> the latest sources from CVS (in gtk-pango branch of gtk+ module)


> I have, however, one question: which encoding should be used for the 
po files?
> There is some people voluntering to translate the po file of Gtk+ to 
Arabic;
> should it be done in utf-8 or iso-8859-6 ?
> And what about existing po files, must they be converted to utf-8 
before
> release of gtk+ 1.4 ?

> Thank you.

> --
> Ki ça vos våye bén,
> Pablo Saratxaga

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