[Fedora-trans-ar] Re: Arabic issue #29: Some Arabic fonts doesn't display any character in Qt

[Munzir Taha]

On Yaum al-Khamees 29 Muharram 1426 07:31, Munzir Taha wrote:
> Qt 4.0.0-b2-snapshot-20050308
> System: Linux 2.6.10-1mdk i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ GNU/Linux
>
> CODE:
> QApplication::setFont(QFont("Arabic Transparent", 72));
> QTextEdit *text = new QTextEdit(trUtf8("بس"));
>
> DESCRIPTION:
> Nothing is displayed in QTextEdit though two characters are passed to the
> constructor.

Now I can even say that Qt handling of fonts is very buggy. I checked with 
your demos/textedit/textedit:

Arabic Transparent: doesn't show letters at all or show them broken
Diwani Letter: shows gaps and spacing between the letters
Hesham Gornata and hundereds of my fonts: are not even considered as fonts; 
they change nothing.

You can test with Hesham Gornata from:
http://www.arabic-fedora.org/munzir/hgornata.ttf
The first two fonts are well-known from MS Office.

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