Re: [ft] Problem rendering Arabic Text.

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I've an application that uses SDL, SGE and Freetype libraries to
> render text on Screen. Latin text works fine, but Arabic text
> appears from left to right. This is a complex language, is RTL and
> the glyphs are different depending on the possition, and my
> application doesn't care.
> 
> Is there a solution to Load and render each character but deppending
> if text is RTL/LTR and drawing the correct character deppending if
> is Arabic etc..?

This is beyond FreeType's scope.  You need a higher-level library like
ICU, Pango, or Qt for handling complex scripts.


    Werner