Re: Pango-1.1.2 development release

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Hicham Amaoui <amaoui altern org> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> >Pango-1.1.2 is now available for download at:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.1/
> >
> >This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.2; no further
> >API additions are anticipated before Pango-1.2, but there is no
> >guarantee of stability at this point. This package is ABI and API
> >compatible with the public API in Pango-1.0.x.
> >
> >The major change since Pango-1.1.1 is improvements to the Win32
> >backend by Tor Lillqvist (also in the Pango-1.0.5 release). There
> >is also a new wrap mode for PangoLayout done by Alex Larsson
> >and various bug fixes and improvements.
> >
> Any chances to include fixes for bug #83058
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83058

No, we don't have an acceptable fix for this yet, unfortunately, :-(

> Without it, arabic based languages are simply not usables.

The workaround I have been suggesting is to do accelerators for 
Arabic as they are done for Chinese, Japanese, Korean:

 File (_F)

Rather than:

 _File.

I know it is bad, and I hope we have a fix soon, but it probably
would be 2-3 days work for me to implement a solution, and I 
don't have the time currently.

Regards,
                                        Owen