[Localization] Fwd: Help requested test bidi/complex scripts for abiword stable branch.

[Khaled Hosny]

I already reported a bug about rendering of Arabic script, that I
believe related to this issue, while ago but got no response so far
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11307

Regards,
 Khaled

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:43:47PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Hi, forwarding this request for help from the Abiword developers.
> 
> Would be great to improve Write's script support for the next
> milestone (due in August).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Tomeu
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Martin Edmund Sevior <martines at unimelb.edu.au>
> Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM
> Subject: Help requested test bidi/complex scripts for abiword stable branch.
> To: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>, sugar at laptop.org
> Cc: msevior at physics.unimelb.edu.au
> 
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
>            AbiWord provides the foundation for the write activity
> within sugar. Very recently we discovered critical bu in  our 2.6
> series which manifested itself as inconsistent layout and printing.
> 
> Fixing this required substantial changes to our core graphics
> rendering classes. This might have affected AbiWord's (and hence
> Write's) ability to  render bidirectional text and complex scripts.
> 
> Unfortunately our core abiword hackers are not proficient at either of
> these so I'm asking for help from people who know about bi-directional
> text and/or complex texts.
> 
> Please build our stable branch of the our code and report your tests
> to abiword-dev at abisource.com.
> You can checkout the correct branch with this svn command.
> 
> svn co http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/branches/ABI-2-6-0-STABLE/ abiword-2.6
> 
> You'll need the development versions of a number of libraries to build
> abiword though if your ever managed to build write via sugar-jhbuild
> you'll have what you need already. More information is in
> abiword-2.6/docs/build.txt
> 
> Thank you very much. All help is appreciated.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Martin
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-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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