On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote:

> On Monday 25 March 2002 23:20, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > > > Fribidi 0.9.0 is a bit problematic, espcially with gtk programs
> > > > If you're expecting some strange crashes (espcially on startup) the
> > > > first thing I'd do would be to upgradefribidi to the lates version
> > > > (0.10.1, currently).
> > Let me know if you have any problems
> I d/l fribidi-0.10.1, and compiled from source (since I could not make an rpm
> from it).

  http://linux.org.il/~tzafrir/fribidi-0.10.1-4local.i586.rpm

if you still need

A binary package for mandrake 8.1 built from Mandrake's package for 8.2 .

> I also d/l biditext 1.0.1, and compiled from sources (I could build
> it into rpm, if I would make the fribidi rpm). problems:
> 1) the same problem still happens.
> 2) both of those libs were installed into /usr/local, but biditext did not
> work, until I linked
> /usr/lib/libfribidi.so.0 -> /usr/locallib/libfribidi.so.0, which IMHOis a
> build bug.

What do you mean "didn't work"? Failed to load?

Was there a version of fribidi in /usr/lib?

>
> is the problem (about fonts sets) in fribidi_log2vis(), or somewhere else?
>  - diego

I believe that the problem is in the program/library using XDrawString:
maybe when a fontset is used, a draw "request" is broken into subrequests
of a single charset.

Are numbers (which are also ASCII characters) tritted like spaces?

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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