[Fedora-trans-ar] Re: Arabic issue #6: Harakat/Diacritics position is not correct.

[Lars Knoll]

On Thursday 24 February 2005 08:00, Munzir Taha wrote:
> On Yaum al-Arbi'a 29 Thu al-Hijjah 1425 7:28 pm, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 February 2005 04:35, Munzir Taha wrote:
> > > On Yaum al-Ahad 19 Thu al-Hijjah 1425 9:19 pm, Munzir Taha wrote:
> > > > Qt Version: qt-x11-opensource-4.0.0-b1
> > > > System: Mandrake 10.1 on AMD64
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > CODE:
> > > >         QTextEdit *text = new QTextEdit(QObject::trUtf8("ﺃ"));
> > > >
> > > > PROBLEM: The diacritic FATHATAN (064B) appears under the ALEF though
> > > > it should appear over it.
> > >
> > > This bug is still valid with snapshot
> > > Qt Version: qt-x11-opensource-4.0.0-b2-snapshot-20050131
> >
> > This and issue #4 and #5 should be fixed with tonights snapshot.
>
> The position is still not correct. The situation now is that the HARAKAT
> would not appear at all! Actually it's there but the HARAKA is now too far
> from the letter that you can't see it if it's on the first line of a
> top-aligned text. I would appear +/-1 line above/below the letter!
>
> Doesn't Qt supports OpenType? Shouldn't the position of HARAKAT be
> extracted from the OpenType font tables?

Well it does, and it should work fine for fonts that have open type 
positioning tables. For fonts that don't have positioning tables we actually 
do the work ourselves, and this positioning in Qt had a bug I fixed today.

So please try tonight's (or any later) snapshot, the issue should hopefully be 
gone now :)

Cheers,
Lars