[Maposmatic-dev] Re: Right-to-Left street index + proper rendering of Arabic, Korean, etc.

[Bassem JARKAS]

Hello Thomas,
The rendering is OK and the layout is OK.

Thank you

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I started working on RTL support for the street index and proper
> rendering of Arabic, Korean and other non-latin alphabets, using Pango.
>
> So far, the result is
> http://toulibre.org/~thomas/maposmatic-rtl-street-index.png.
>
> Bassem, is it the correct rendering for Arabic, and is the layout ok
> for RTL languages ?
>
> What I've done:
>
>  * Use Pango on top of Cairo to do the font rendering. This magically
>   allows to get Korean working and to get nice Arabic characters with
>   ligatures. This is of course used for both RTL and non-RTL modes ;
>
>  * In RTL mode, start with the first column on the right ;
>
>  * In RTL mode, put the street name on the right and the street
>   location (A1..B2) on the left.
>
> Is this correct ?
>
> If so, I will integrate my test program into OcitySMap and commit this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
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Bassem JARKAS