Re: [Bug-freedink] Arabic translation

[beuc]

Hi,

Good news that the FreeDink font supports Arabic characters.

I currently don't have the time to change the complete font subsystem
in the FreeDink engine, however I would welcome patches.

Translating the base "freedink" domain (which is very short, 42
strings) would certainly help to make some preliminary tests (plus,
some of the strings are displayed on the text console and would be
directly useable).

Cheers!
Sylvain

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 07:33:56PM +0200, عبد الرحمان أيمن wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does the "Liberation Sans" font have Arabic characters?
> >
> 
> yes, it does! you may use it until we finish developing the typeface that
> we been working on, it should fix every known issue in the Arabian fonts,
> will be resealed by 2017, still in early stages
> 
> Apparently there's a way to add this feature in the code.
> 
> have you tried using it? maybe i can translate a couple of strings then
> send it back to you, then you take a screen shot and send it back to me! as
> I'm currently using an Internet cafe computer and can't compile.
> 
> respectfully
> 
> 
> 
> 2015-03-08 20:00 GMT+02:00 <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Hi and thanks for your interest in FreeDink :)
> >
> >
> > Here are answers to your questions:
> >
> >
> > - what's the difference between "Freedink", "Dink", and "dfrac"?
> >
> > freedink is the game engine (few strings such as the default action
> > and magic texts)
> >
> > dink is the original Dink Smallwood story (~2200 strings)
> >
> > dfarc is the front-end / launcher to start FreeDink and D-Mods
> >
> >
> > - how would the game handle a right-to-left non-latin script
> >   (Arabic-Hebrew..etc)?
> >
> > As far as I understand, FreeDink currently does not support
> > right-to-left, because SDL_ttf doesn't support this.
> > Apparently there's a way to add this feature in the code
> > https://github.com/lxnt/ex-sdl-freetype-harfbuzz
> >
> > Does the "Liberation Sans" font have Arabic characters?
> > If not, we also need a way to specify an alternate font.
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Sylvain
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 06:14:48PM +0200, عبد الرحمان أيمن wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i'm interested in translating Freedink into Arabic, i have a couple of
> > > questions,
> > >
> > > what's the difference between "Freedink", "Dink", and "dfrac"?
> > > how would the game handle a right-to-left non-latin script
> > > (Arabic-Hebrew..etc)?
> >