On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:16:55AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> Currently 'font-ota.lua' hard codes the Arabic shaping properties,and it
>> doesn't seem to be complete  (e.g. the ڤ as in أڤاست is not joined), I
>> think such information belong to 'char-def.lua' and should be derived
>> from UCD, which provide 'ArabicShaping.txt[1]', covering Arabic, Syriac
>> and N'Ko scripts which all need the same shaping as Arabic.
>
> indeed this info will be moved to char def at some point (same for some  
> cjk properties) but for the moment this is easier to hack; if you have  
> patches, just let us know (remider for idris: you also had some, these  
> symbols showing up in black in tre tracer ..)

OK, the attached patch should added all Arabic entries from
ArabicShaping.txt, I tested some Arabic, Persian and Urdu samples and
all seem to be OK. This also fixes a small bug, 0629 (TEH MARBUTA) were
marked as dual joining while is is right joining only.

Regards,
 Khaled


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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer