Good stuff. I have looked into OpenType some more. Early on I tried using
the Arabic Transparent with ImageMagick and it did not work. TrueType
Explorer
(a free font viewer) indicates that it is an OpenType font and other web
sites indicate that
it has the tables to support Arabic. ImageMagick uses Freetype 2, I
believe.
Anyways, since this is now getting off topic, I will go over to the
Imagemagick
forum and see if anyone knows why its not working.
Thanks all.
Chris
"Chris Whiting" <bb(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> wrote in message
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Is the bidirectional algorithm as noted in
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/
implemented and embedded in Perl 5.8 Unicode support? If so, is there a
way
to convert the internal string to the visual display.
I know that there is some free software at:
http://fribidi.sourceforge.net/
I also examined Lingua::IW::Logical but it seems to be based on an old
algorithm.
I have implemented the Bidi algorithm, and an Arabic shaping algorithm in
Perl and was wondering if it would be useful to upload it to cpan.
thx,
Chris
PS
you can email me at chris at riverslime onedot com
