Re: A Question about Farsi(answer)

[Farhan <zabardast_khan yahoo co uk>]

hello 
  Farsi and lanuages which are written in arabic
script like urdu will not joined properly in g-edit
because the engine which is used for joining(rendering
engine) in gnome does not support arabic script.Gnome
uses pango as the rendering engine, gedit also uses
the same.There is no problem in g-edit this is the
problem of pango.I am working on builting the support
of arabic script in pango.There is no arabic key board
support in linux.If you install arbic during
installation then data and time will be written in
farsi but the character will not join due to rendering
problem  


--- Edward H Trager <ehtrager umich edu> wrote: > 
> 
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Agahi Houman wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I am using GNOME version 2.2. I was trying to
> make
> > some changes in it, so that it displays all
> messages
> > (such as messages for log out, or something like
> that)
> > and everything in Farsi. There's a
> > problem here and it's that I can't type farsi
> properly
> > in GNOME. I was searching the internet and it
> seems
> > that GNOME v2.2 supports farsi, but when I export
> the
> > farsi LANGUAGE and open the gedit all farsi
> 
> Gedit is designed to be a text editor for editing
> code
> and the like, where the occurrence of complex-layout
> scripts
> like Arabic is rare.  So it is possible that gedit
> does not handle
> Farsi or Arabic correctly within the editor pane. 
> However,
> that does not explain why the characters on the menu
> bar are
> not properly joined: they should be. Do other Gnome
> apps have the
> same problem with menu entries in Farsi or not?  If
> not, then
> it seems likely that it is a gedit bug that you
> should file.
> 
> Gnome uses the Pango library for complex-layout
> scripts and should handle Farsi without a problem. 
> I know that Pango
> handles Arabic correctly.
> 
> For a Linux editor that can really handle Arabic
> script correctly,
> try Yudit (http://www.yudit.org).
> 
> > characters on the menu bar are detached. I even
> copy
> > some farsi text from internet and paste it in
> gedit,
> > it can't even display them properly, it just
> detaches
> > the characters. I mean it doesn't display
> > the whole word it just displays the letters
> separate
> > from each other.
> > I would really appreciate if anybody could tell me
> > what's wrong here, or if there's any easier way to
> use
> > farsi in GNOME v2.2
> > TIA
> >
> >
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