UTF-8 and bidi

eminem Stan greatrambo at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 17 14:10:58 EDT 2004


Hi,
I am a new user of openbox and I really love it, it's a wonderful window 
manager, it even beats xfwm4, now my second best window manager.
However, when browsing pages in mozilla that have arabic titles or editing a 
file with an arabic title the titlebar shows boxes instead of letters.

I chnged the font used in the themes to a unicode font and the letters 
showed up but without shaping or joining support and not RTL order.
It figures since you only use Xft, freetype and glib right?
I am using the new X.org server and it automatically switches to RTL when I 
switch keyboard map, or is that GTK2? Anyway all apps (GTK2.4, rox etc..) 
write and read arabic very well..
Can anything be done to fix this?

I copied this from xfwm4 this to openbox/frame.c :

#include <pango-1.0/pango.h>

and this to the Makefile :

-I/usr/lib/pango-1.0
-lpango-1.0

and it compiled perfectly but nothing changed...

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