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

[Diego Biurrun]

Mohammed Yousif writes:
>   Attached is a patch to enable Arabic language support.
>   Currently, FriBiDI does BiDI, but Arabic also needs shaping.
>   Shaping is the process of "connecting" the letters to form new
>   shapes depending on the position of a given Arabic letter.
> 
>    + A screenshot of MPlayer without the patch:
>         http://mhdyousif.host.sk/files/mplayer_without_shaping.jpg
> 
>    + A screenshot of MPlayer with the patch:
>         http://mhdyousif.host.sk/files/mplayer_with_shaping.jpg

Out of curiosity, is the text on both pictures the same.  AFAICT it
*could* be the same, but I'm not sure.

Diego