Re: first time post with some questions

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

    Abdul-Wahid> My interest in Arabic on Linux stems from a project I am
    Abdul-Wahid> doing from home. I am designing a gnome app where I will need
    Abdul-Wahid> Arabic support. I have a lot of Arabic data that will need to
    Abdul-Wahid> be displayed as rendered text. Therefore, if anyone on this
    Abdul-Wahid> list can update me on the current status of Arabic support in
    Abdul-Wahid> GTK and where I can find more information about using Arabic
    Abdul-Wahid> in GTK I would appreciate it.

The latest development-only versions of GDK, Pango, and GTK were just released
a couple of days ago.  I believe Pango (http://www.pango.org) uses the FriBidi
package to handle directionality.  In short, this development version should
provide reasonable support at least for display of Arabic text.

  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/gdk-1.3.2.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/pango-0.13.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/gtk+-1.3.2.tar.gz

WARNING: This development version is incompatible with GTK 1.2.8!!  Install it
in some other location!  You can also expect the API's to change before it is
ready for general release!
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