خالد حسني أَنَا الّذِي نَظَرَ الأَعْمَى إِلَى أَدَبِي وَأَسْمَعَتْ كَلِمَاتِي مَنْ بِهِ صَمَمُ

أعمل حاليا على إضافة التنويعات المختلفة من الحروف التي تتغير حسب السياق إلي خط "النسخ المبسط"، لاحظت صدفة أن الياء المتطرفة تكاد تكون الحرف الوحيد الذي لا يقبل إلا إضافة كل تنويعاته الممكنة.

بعض التنويعات المختلفة من الياء المتطرفة حسب الحرف السابق عليها، حرف مزعج :)

Scribus 1.3.5 (not released yet), has support for using TeX for text rendering via a special LaTeX frame.

I grabbed it from svn, built it, some quick configuration to use xelatex instead of pdflatex, and the result is the screenshot above :).

Now, I need to polish this and make a good configuration file for ArabXeTeX (that I'm using on top of XeTeX engine).

Testing Arabic support in maemo (this is maemopad, and the font is my working version of Mothanna font).

I was trying to figure how to list fonts accessible to GTK (or pango actually), it turned out that pango.Context has a list_families() method that returns a tuple of pango.FontFamily objects.
Some thing like this:

window = gtk.Window()
context = window.get_pango_context()
families = context.list_families()

for i in families:
        print i.get_name()

I built an Arabic language pack for Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (originally based on Arabeyes translation, but completed and revised).

It can be downloaded from here. Feedback is welcomed.

Update: I've updated the file several times, to fix various problems, since this post, please download it again.

صدرت أول إصدارة مستقرة بالعربية من مولان. مولان هي نسخة من ويكيبيديا (ومشاريع ويكيميديا الأخرى) تعمل محليا على حاسوبك وبدون اتصال بالإنترنت.

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The upcoming beta3 of firefox 3 with Arabic interface, it deserve the extra effort put into it. Thanks to every one contributed to this translation (and a big thanks to me :p).

Get tinderbox builds from here if you can't wait for the release (like me). I still hate firefox, however.

UPDATE: Beta 3 officially released, get it from here.

Update: I rewrote this port and changed its title from Pango vs. FriBiDi, as people misunderstood my point.

We have at least two free software libraries that are capable of doing Arabic shaping, Pango and the FriBiDi (fribidi-0.19 only).

Smart fonts are fonts that is accompanied by instructions that define how glyphs are selected to be laid out, in contrast dumb fonts does not contain such instructions and the text is laid out by simple character to glyph mapping.

WebKit-r29336 using Pango for font rendering, enabling Arabic and other complex text rendering.