Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

[Patrick McCarty]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Patrick McCarty <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, James Samir Ismail <address@hidden> wrote:
>> So this seems like a bug after all. How do I get this into the queue? I'd be 
>> more than happy to help out with testing.
>
> Which version of LilyPond are you using?  The 2.13 series has many,
> many improvements in font/text handling that may not have been
> backported to 2.12.
>
> The output with 2.13.47 (on GNU/Linux) looks just fine to me.

Just to follow up on this...

After further testing, I'm almost 100% sure that this problem can be
solved by upgrading Pango to the latest stable release (in GUB).

Pango 1.26.0 has some major issues with shaping, notably for Khmer
script, and obviously for Arabic as well.

Graham, would you be willing to bump Pango in GUB?  I've been running
Pango 1.28.3 with my self-compiled LilyPond builds since October, and
I haven't noticed any issues -- only improvements.

Thanks,
Patrick