Re: Arabic. (Tomas can you answer?)

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 22:17:57 EDT

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     --- Martin Sevior
    <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >
    > Hi Tomas,
    > Can you answer this? Should your answer go in a
    > FAQ? It appears
    > that you alone can deal with BiDi questions.
    >
    > Cheers
    >
    > Martin
    >
    >
    > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    > Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 01:02:29 +0200
    > From: Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
    > To: abi@abisource.com
    > Subject: Arabic
    >
    > I realize I must be bugging you more that I ought
    > to, but I
    > seem to be unable to get the right-to-left feature
    > to work.
    > I believe you read my postings concerning support
    > for
    > arabic, and how words get reversed to a
    > left-to-right
    > ordering after I type a space or a cr. I would
    > really
    > appreciate if you could comment on this. If this
    > happens
    > only to me, then maybe the problem might be with my
    > build of
    > the library Abiword relies on to implement bidi
    > support. But
    > then again I do not know where to put my hands on
    > without
    > support, and there is very little documentation for
    > me to read.
    >
    > I'm trying to help an arabic speaking friend enjoy
    > the
    > benefits of a modern word processor like Abiword. I
    > think
    > this is a very worthy reason to seek your help. I
    > really
    > hope I'm not annoying you with this problem.

    Are you sure you are using a bidi-enabled build of
    AbiWord? AbiWord has been buildable with and without
    the bidi support which AbiWord needs for Arabic to
    work properly. Check where you got it from to see if
    they have both versions and look for "bidi".

    In the future Arabic will work with all builds so this
    problem will go away.

    Andrew Dunbar.

    > Best regards,
    > Alex Baretta
    >
    >

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