Re: Persian joining and Pango.

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Hi Aidan,

Can you point me to the code using Pango?  I doubt Pango beiing involved in
that shaping process.

behdad

On 08/28/11 09:42, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> I’m one of the XEmacs developers. Our GTK version, available here:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs-gtk/ , uses Pango. Joining for
> Arabic-specific characters works fine, but joining for Persian-specific
> characters doesn’t. So when I type:
> 
> الف به په ته ثه 
> 
> alef, beh, teh and theh appear with no problems (well, the bidi is iffy, but
> one step at a time), while peh doesn’t join to heh. On the same
> machine, pango-view with the same text joins with no problems.
> 
> I’ve tried setting the GTK language to Persian; this doesn’t work because
> the system locale doesn’t support it, but as far as I can see it shouldn’t
> be necessary anyway. It’s not immediately obvious to me where to look next;
> any pointers would be welcome.
> 
> Some version info:
> 
> $ pango-view --version
> pango-view (pango) 1.28.4
> Pango module interface version: 1.6.0
> $ pkg-config --modversion pango   
> 1.28.4
> $ pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0
> 2.22.1
> $ pkg-config --modversion fontconfig
> 2.8.0
> $ pkg-config --modversion freetype2 
> 12.2.6
> $ 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Aidan
>