Note: This is a public test instance of Red Hat Bugzilla. The data contained within is a snapshot of the live data so any changes you make will not be reflected in the production Bugzilla. Email is disabled so feel free to test any aspect of the site that you want. File any problems you find or give feedback at bugzilla.redhat.com.
Bug 101182
Summary: | Make Arabic work out of the box | ||
---|---|---|---|
Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta | Reporter: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
Component: | fontconfig | Assignee: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | beta5 | CC: | mohamed.eldesoky, munzirtaha, sabdelg |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2004-09-27 19:53:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
Embargoed: | |||
Bug Depends On: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 100644 |
Description
Owen Taylor
2003-07-29 20:58:59 UTC
Point (2) was introduced upon a suggestion from RedHat engineer ( I don't recall the name now). When we first introduced KACST fonts, they had problems with the english glyphs (license), so that it was suggested to remove all english glyphs, and we were told that it will fix the problem !!! And I would like to refer to this bug too https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101228 I thnk it's right that the Arabic fonts don't have English glyphs. The problem is just that fontconfig's selection algorithm is poor in this area. I have some plans to work around that it in future versions of Pango, but for now, getting Arabic to work properly in an en locale is hard. *** Bug 102601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** How about keymaps, and proper switching to Arabic and English layout for Text input ? Owen .. Arabic supports looks good on Fedora B3 Quick note though, when chosing arabic-egypt as the lang from the GUI login, it works fine though the Main Menu (The Red Hat on the status bar) and all the menus are on the left, which should be on the right. redhat-config-keyboard does not have arabic Checked the other bugs and it seems that RTL issue for the menues has been solved before yet it is not included in Fedora Test 3 .. Also some of the menues for GNOME is not updated for Arabic translation, although from gnome's i18n site the arabic translation is 100% done. Can we update that ? Sherif - can you test FC3 test 2 for arabic and file separate bugs about keyboard, menu, etc, issues? Using this bug for all arabic related issues doesn't work out very well. In fontconfig-2.2.3-2, I've added KacstQura to the sans, sans-serif, and monospace aliases, which should provide decent out-of-the-box rendering of Arabic. (this package won't make test 2, you probably should upgrade to it manually before testing) It might make more sense to use KacstBook rather than than KacstQura for the Serif alias, but I'm not very happy with its rendering at small sizes. KacstQura doesn't render that well either - it is too dark. But it seems better to me. Owen .. I will test it out and provide the feedback. Thanks Owen - I have tested , FC3 20040904 from rawhide. I installed it and here is my comments (P.S. I was using VMWare due to lack of machine available to test on): * Anaconda - I was unable to see the GUI install, I guess VMWare issue. If I select Arabic installation on TEXT install , words still show LTR and letters are not connected, lack of keyboard maps I belive. * X - I agree with you on the font selection, it looks fine and decent rendering. I sent a note to the maintainer of the fonts to check your note about the fonts to see if we can fix it. * When trying to add Arabic mapping to the keyboard layout I got the application crashes, and X next time restarts give me error of: Error activating XKB configuration. Probably internal X server problem. X server version data: The XFree86 Project, Inc 3320 If you report this situation as a bug, please include: - The result of xprop -root | grep XKB - The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb I still did not go through all the know bugs to see if it has been all fixed , but this is my first impression so far. OK, I don't want this to be a generic "problems with Arabic" bug. It sounds like the font situation is OK. |