[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] MPlayer Subtitles Arabic Shaping Support

[Mohammed Yousif]

On Thursday 03 June 2004 03:14, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm completely against this patch which imports Arabic specific
> code into the mplayer code base.

  And What about Hebrew specific code which is already imported
  into mplayer code base? (search for 'hebrew' on subreader.c)
  There is even an "almost" hard-coded encoding specification
  there (ISO-8859-8).
  Also, note that Arabic is used by much more people than 
  Hebrew.

> The functionality is going to 
> be implemented in GNU FriBidi instead, and that's the place it
> belongs too.
>
> The GNU FriBidi with Arabic Joining/Shaping support will be
> released this month. 

  This is good news.

> If you don't buy my promise on the release 
> time, go on and add shaping support to FriBidi, but not mplayer
> please.
>
>
> Behdad Esfahbod
> GNU FriBidi maintainer
>

  Not sure what do you mean, I already asked you about that
  months ago (maybe a year?) and you said "Thanks, I will
  let you know when work on shaping start" but never heard anything
  else from you.


 Anyway, I see it this way "Arabic shaping with code outside of FriBiDI
 is much better than no Arabic shaping at all".

-- 
Mohammed Yousif
Egypt