[Fedora-trans-ar] Re: Arabic issue #27: QFontDialog::getFont doesn't display the sample text in the language of the font

[Munzir Taha]

On Yau al-Thulatha 27 Muharram 1426 18:26, Lars Knoll wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:27, Munzir Taha wrote:
> > On Yau al-Thulatha 27 Muharram 1426 11:29, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > > > PROBLEM:
> > > > The QFontDialog box doesn't display the sample text in the
> > > > language/characters available. I expect to see Arabic letters when I
> > > > select Fonts with only Arabic letters available. This should be
> > > > detected automatically if possible. Otherwise, in case of fonts which
> > > > supports many languages there should be a Language combo box as in
> > > > OpenOffice.org.
> > >
> > > Which is difficult. What's the default language of e.g. Tahoma, that
> > > support all of Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and maybe 3 or 4
> > > others?
> >
> > Lars! Never have I mentioned something about a default language. I
> > mentioned that if the font supports only one language then its characters
> > should be displayed. I also mentioned that in the case of fonts which
> > supports many languages the user _should_ specify the language on which
> > he want to see the sample. Or else why do we need that sample text? Only
> > for English? Is it fair?
>
> As you might have noticed, the sample chars vary with teh writing system
> you set in the font dialog.

Ah! I didn't notice it works sometimes. This is exactly what I am asking 
for if it would work properly.

> The writing system enum also limits the fonts 
> to those that can display. So if you set the writing system to "arabic" you
> are guaranteed that all the fonts you get in the family list support
> arabic.

Really? Let's see... I choose Arabic and some of the fonts displayed are 
guaranteed _not_ to support Arabic like Courier 10 Pitch and Bitstream 
Charter (displays only English letters in the sample), Clearlyu Pua (display 
squares). Even Fonts that surely contain Arabic letters like Lucidabright and 
Lucidatypewriter displays squares on the sample.

I also choose Cyrillic and the fonts displayed are Traditional Arabic, 
KacstBook, KacstTitle, Kacst..., Diwani Letter, Diwani Outline, Diwani... 
which are also guaranteed _not_ to have a single Cyrillic glyph.

Another issue happen when I choose 72 for the font size. The sample simply go 
to the right and disappear! It should center itself or actually you should 
center it ;)

Yet another issue is the Arabic letters choosen for the Sample. They are 
random letters. The best letters for this are
أبجد
for many convincing reasons. Please change this.

And stil yet another issue or actually a wish list is to have an option of 
overline in the effects. This is really needed in Arabic since this 
corresponds to underline in English.

> What QFontDialog should probably do is to pick the initially selected
> writing system according to the systems locale.

Good idea!

> > > This is the reason why we didn't go that way. If you select arabic in
> > > the font dialog, and you will get the arabic sample chars and only see
> > > the fonts supporting arabic in the family list.
> >
> > May be I am misunderstanding your point. 

Now I can understand the misunderstanding. You were speaking as if it were 
working.

> > > > Another note is that the "Writing System" QComboBox doesn't sort the
> > > > items alphabetically in the Writing System combo box so it's
> > > > rather difficult to find the script.
> > >
> > > It probably should, you're right.
> >
> > Good!


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