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

[Bassem JARKAS]

Sorry, it's not OK 100%
the title of board is wrong! it displays the last letter and not the
first letter of street name.


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Bassem JARKAS <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
>> --
>> Thomas Petazzoni                         http://thomas.enix.org
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>>
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> --
> Bassem JARKAS
>



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