RE: [ft] does freetype support Arabic?

[Ian Brown]

That’s the job of a layout engine (freetype is not a layout engine – it is a glyph rendering engine). You need to use a layout engine like pango, uniscribe or maybe ICU to get the information as to how the glyphs should change in context.

 

Ian

 

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From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of ??
Sent: 07 June 2005 13:29
To: address@hidden
Subject: [ft] does freetype support Arabic?

 

hello,guys!

 I tried to use freetype to display English, Thai, Chinese,etc.. It dose work wonderful.but when I try to display Arabic, there is a problem: the characters don't change with the different adjacent characters. How to solve this problem?

 

 

thanks,

Raynor