On Tuesday 29 November 2005 13:21, zinosat@tiscali.it wrote:
> Arabic letters are not properly joined ad look as if they were
> written "l i k e t h i s".
Adnène Trojette has made some progress on this yesterday.
See this excerpt from #debian-boot.
< adn> ok, I have another possibility
< adn> debian-installer is just not using our font
< adn> I mean when I remove ttf-arabeyes and launch
"podebconf-display-po -f gnome ar.po" on a valid ar.po
< adn> either I have an arabeyes font, and then it is well displayed
< adn> or I have no arabic (not arabeyes) font, and then it displays
characters individually, as if it were using the glyphs in a latin ttf
< adn> does it ring a bell for someone?
< adn> cause the display is the same in cdebconf and debian-installer, isn't it?
< fjp> basically yes.
< fjp> try fc-list and I think fc-match --sort 'freefont'
< fjp> You should see the ae-font listed.
< fjp> You can also see where in the "searchorder" it is.
< fjp> This means that is a character is available in another font that
is above it, that font will be used.
< adn> it is actually listed
< adn> in 6th position
< fjp> Yes, I know. That is why I included that font.
< adn> is there an easy way to switch the order?
< fjp> Now is the time when you need to start reading fontconfig docs :-)
My knowledge ends here.
< fjp> (or ask smart questions elsewhere)
< fjp> Other option is to delete all other fonts and run fc-cache -f.
< adn> it rules!
< adn> HAH! :)
< adn> ok, let us read fontconfig doc now!
< fjp> What happened?
< adn> debian-installer worked perfectly (latin and arabic text)
< fjp> How?
< adn> (cause the ae font contains also latin characters)
< fjp> With only ae?
< adn> yes
< adn> well, with only ae in truetype directory
< fjp> Then it is probably FreeSans breaking it... I think we'll need to
strip that to avoid duplicating specialist fonts.
< minghua> it would be really nice if fontconfig can map different
regions of unicode range to different fonts
< fjp> Yes, exactly. I've looked a bit for that, but no luck AFAICT.
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