[Bf-committers] Arabic support in text editing

[Majid AL-Dharrab]

@Sergey Kurdakov
AFAICR, harfbuzz doesn't have any dependencies except for freetype2, of
course. Fribidi doesn't require any dependencies either. Besides, pango's
shaper is a little bit inferior to harfbuzz.

@Yousef Hurfoush
Harfbuzz can do all of this on its own (with freetype2). I think Greg just
found it easier to use fribidi's function instead. Fribidi's part in this is
the easiest anyway, so recoding it for blender won't be too much of a
hassle. Although, I'm curious to see what other possible solutions you can
come up with.

Regards,
Majid

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Sergey Kurdakov <sergey.forum at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed pango being mentioned
>
> here is one possible implementation for graphics
> http://code.google.com/p/osgpango/
> ( just for reference )
>
> it requires though quite a lot dlls (cairo, pango, many gtk+ dlls ) to be
> included,
> so the size of Blender will keep growing
>
> Regards
> Sergey
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