[openbox] LIGHT arabic patch

[Mikael Magnusson]

Well, I don't use a unicode font for my window titles, and openbox doesn't 
handle secondary fonts at all, so what I see in the title is nothing at 
all.. :)

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, eminem Stan wrote:

> Well no not anymore, pango just needs glib, freetype and Xlib stuff, nothig 
> out of the ordinary.
> As to rendering arabic webpages, it's easy if you have the fonts. It's 
> simpler than chinese or thai, I read they have to go through lot's of trouble 
> to render correctly.
>
> What you would notice is that while viewing an arabic webpage, openbox's 
> titlebar will show the arabic, unshaped ( individual letters, not joined ) 
> and the opposite way round ( Left to Right , while the correct is Right to 
> Left ).
>
> I'll try to get Uniball here before this conversation get's over my head.
>
>> 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 :).
>
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Mikael Magnusson