Hi all,
fribidi2 works fine, i made it tonight, it seems to be a cleaner and easier solution but the bad news that i built it using a CVS version, i'll do more search to figure out the its state.
it solves both RTL and character shaping, now we have 2 solution
1 - SDL_Pango have trouble with MAC.
2 - fribidi2 not released yet.
2 good solution![]()
here is the version i used
:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/fribidi co fribidi2
Best regards,
Ahmed Sayed
fribidi2 works fine, i made it tonight, it seems to be a cleaner and easier solution but the bad news that i built it using a CVS version, i'll do more search to figure out the its state.
it solves both RTL and character shaping, now we have 2 solution
1 - SDL_Pango have trouble with MAC.
2 - fribidi2 not released yet.
2 good solution
here is the version i used
:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/fribidi co fribidi2
Best regards,
Ahmed Sayed
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From: Dave Vasilevsky <address@hidden>
To: Globulation2 development mailing list <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, January 5, 2007 6:15:04 AM
Subject: Re: [glob2-devel] Add more language support #16391
From: Dave Vasilevsky <address@hidden>
To: Globulation2 development mailing list <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, January 5, 2007 6:15:04 AM
Subject: Re: [glob2-devel] Add more language support #16391
On 1/4/07, Stéphane Magnenat <address@hidden> wrote:
> Having different subsystems for different plateforms does not sound very
> maintainable to me. There is a big risk some linux guy updates something that
> breaks OS X subsystem, while OS X maintainer is away. I'm afraid that in the
> long run this will just make ports more difficult.
Yeah, that's understood. If we go this path, I'd want to establish a
pretty small API for text-drawing-systems. The only operations we seem
to need are:
- Init/cleanup the font system
- Load a font
- Draw styled text as a DrawableSurface
We could then have each implementation in separate files, lessening
the chances of accidental breakage.
Before doing anything though, we should probably talk to the SDL_Pango
maintainers and find out what they think! I'm sure they have ideas for
the best way to get text working on multiple OSes.
Dave
> Having different subsystems for different plateforms does not sound very
> maintainable to me. There is a big risk some linux guy updates something that
> breaks OS X subsystem, while OS X maintainer is away. I'm afraid that in the
> long run this will just make ports more difficult.
Yeah, that's understood. If we go this path, I'd want to establish a
pretty small API for text-drawing-systems. The only operations we seem
to need are:
- Init/cleanup the font system
- Load a font
- Draw styled text as a DrawableSurface
We could then have each implementation in separate files, lessening
the chances of accidental breakage.
Before doing anything though, we should probably talk to the SDL_Pango
maintainers and find out what they think! I'm sure they have ideas for
the best way to get text working on multiple OSes.
Dave
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