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

[Munzir Taha]

On Yaum al-Khamees 22 Muharram 1426 16:49, Lars Knoll wrote:
> On Thursday 24 February 2005 08:00, Munzir Taha wrote:

> > > > > Qt Version: qt-x11-opensource-4.0.0-b1
> > > > > System: Mandrake 10.1 on AMD64

> > > > 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 :)


I tried with Qt: 4.0.0-b2-snapshot-20050306 and still the bug is not fixed! I 
just did it like this:

        QApplication::setFont(QFont("Tahoma", 72));
        QTextEdit *text = new QTextEdit(trUtf8("عَرَبِي"));

The HARAKAT are still too high above the letter or too low below it.

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