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lunohod · 04-15-2009, 03:34 AM

I've rewritten the rendering part of FBReader using only freetype2, because pango was too slow. Right now RTL languages are not supported. However, I've tried to add RTL rendering and I was able to read hebrew (without nekudot). But it's much harder to render arabic.

04-15-2009, 03:34 AM	#6
lunohod OpenInkpot developer Posts: 211 Karma: 5627 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Device: N516,V3,PRS505,iLiad,eSlick,E60,K3,K4NT,M90,PB912,KoboMini	I've rewritten the rendering part of FBReader using only freetype2, because pango was too slow. Right now RTL languages are not supported. However, I've tried to add RTL rendering and I was able to read hebrew (without nekudot). But it's much harder to render arabic.