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

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Seemed to come across some issues wrt Indic as well, with some quick
testing. Bug report at
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11670

Thanks,
Sayamindu



2008/6/18 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
> 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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