[opensource-dev] Problem with displaying Arabic menu text in SL client
Hi, I have been looking to get Arabic text working on the SL client, but so far with no luck. I am only looking to display Arabic for menus and text on the client. What I have found is that the Arabic text is being displayed left-to-right, rather than right-to-left. I have added a language to SL, so I have the Arabic translations in UTF8 format in XML files, as with the other languages such as Chinese. I used Notepad++ to copy the translations to the XML files, and they are displayed right-to-left correctly. However, when loaded into the SL client, the text is being reversed so that it reads left-to-right. I have tried reversing the text, so that it displays left-to-right in the XML file, in the hope that it will then be reversed and display right-to-left in the client. I cannot read or write Arabic, but I have been told that the characters are displayed disjoint, most likely due to the wrong ordering of the characters breaking associations between them in the XML file. Has anyone looked into this problem, or have any ideas to what I could try? Does anyone have this working? Kind Regards, Izze ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
Re: [opensource-dev] Problem with displaying Arabic menu text in SL client
Are you able to give an example on how to use this character within an XML file? Izze From: syt...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:38:44 +0200 Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Problem with displaying Arabic menu text in SL client To: slli...@boroon.dasgupta.ch CC: iz...@hotmail.co.uk; opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com U+200F Reverse direction Notes:- Microsoft have a bug, this char don't work sometimes (msoffice 2011 for Mac affected too) - parser work left2right put the char on left side of each entry in all XML files -- Sent by iPhone Il giorno 05/ott/2010, alle ore 12:19, Boroondas Gupte ha scritto: Hi Izze On 10/05/2010 10:31 AM, izze euler wrote: ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
Re: [opensource-dev] Problem with displaying Arabic menu text in SL client
Would it be possible to create images containing the arabic text and displaying those instead of processing through Second Life's text engine? Izze Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:30:58 -0700 From: j...@lindenlab.com To: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Problem with displaying Arabic menu text in SL client On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:32 AM, izze euler wrote: Are you able to give an example on how to use this character within an XML file? Using that character won't have any effect. As Boroondas mentioned, Second Life's text engine is pretty basic and simply doesn't support:Right-to-Left scripts - typically this functionality is called "BiDi" since the direction actually changes within text strings for numbers, foreign words, etc. Contextual shaping (think: ligatures as a mandatory language feature) Combining characters/diacritics* (think: characters merge into single glyphs) Complex word breaking (for languages that don't use spaces)This is a big task, and (as Boroondas also mentioned) is probably best tackled by a thorough overhaul/replacement of SL's text rendering engine as Alissa Sabre attempted. Additionally, if we're talking about a localized version of the UI and not just rendering text content correctly, you'd also want to flip the X coordinates for some (but not all) UI layout if the app was running with a UI language that was RTL, which would require changes to the XUI engine and some of the controls. (Since, ideally you don't have to touch all of the control rects in all of the XUI files) -- Josh * I look forward to the day when someone writes a text engine that handles the character combining logic for classical Mayan. ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
