Re: [ft] does freetype support Arabic?

[Werner LEMBERG]

>  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?

For Arabic you need a nigher-level library which `preprocesses' the
input characters (by assigning properties to them) so that you get the
proper initial, medial, and final glyphs.  For OpenType fonts I
suggest to try Pango or ICU.


    Werner