[openbox] LIGHT arabic patch

[Mikael Magnusson]

I just think if we're going to get extra dependencies, it might as well be 
something that can draw everything, not just arabic. I googled a bit but 
didn't put much effort into it, and it seems pango used fribidi at one 
point, does it still do that? I have pango but not freebidi and it seems i 
can view arabic webpages, but then again, I'm not exactly sure how it's 
supposed to look :).

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, eminem Stan wrote:

> Okay you got a point about the fonts and characters thing. But footprint-wise 
> fribidi is smaller than pango. Not that much but still ! Here are the 
> stripped sizes :
>
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  58K 2004-04-19 12:10 /usr/lib/libfribidi.so.0.0.0
>
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 206K 2004-08-27 03:32 /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0.400.1
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 148K 2004-08-27 03:32 /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.400.1
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  43K 2004-08-27 03:32 /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0.400.1
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  17K 2004-08-27 03:32 /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0.400.1
>
>
>> Well, pango is just ~3-400 kB, how large is freebidi? Pango would also let 
>> us render text with different fonts so you can have a title with many 
>> languages in it and still use your favorite font for latin chars. It 
>> doesn't have to load much until it actually has to draw something anyway.
>
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Mikael Magnusson