I'm still trying to catch the whole mail queue... Tomas, if I understand you right, you're advocating for not using Pango for the layout. But nothing in Pango (afaik) prevents us to use our own layout, using only the more low level stuff in pango (itemization, determination of line/word/paragraph breaks, shapers, ...)
I don't think that anybody will seriously push for changing our internals to use PangoLayout... So, what are your opinions about all that? P.S.: As I said you in a private note long time ago, I'm in touch with several arabic native speakers (starting with my gf). The only thing that prevented me from testing the arabic shaper was that I was not able to find an arabic keymap. If somebody can say me what has to be done to enter arabic characters with an american keyboard in Windows XP, I would be able to do some testing. Cheers, -- Joaquin Cuenca Abela [EMAIL PROTECTED]
