Re: GTK+ - text all mixed up in display...

[Erwann Chenede <Erwann Chenede ireland sun com>]

Hi Guys,

This happened to me also when I was using an external fribidi to 
compile pango. The solution is to configure pango without the option 
--with-fribidi, after that everything works fine.

I guess the mini-fribidi included in pango and the external fribidi have 
different interfaces now. So should the --with-fribidi option be removed
from pango ?


A+
Erwann

PS : And I thought somebody implemented a dyslexic option for GTK ;)

>
>Darren Kenny <Darren Kenny ireland sun com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to use the CVS version of GTK+ 1.3.2 and have built it 
successfully
>> but when I run even the gtk-demo program I see all the text as being jumbled
>> up, eg: 'Name' might appear as 'mNea'. Has anyone else seen this?
>
>OK, looking at the screenshot you sent Jonathan (it's sort of cool/amusing - 
maybe
>you should send it to the list ;-), I think the problem is that FriBidi is
>assigning essentially random bidirectional levels to the text, which then
>causes the bidirectional-reordering code to go to work.
>
>As for why this is happening on your system, I don't know -- it might have 
>something to do with endianess, but I think other people have gotten GTK+-1.3.2
>to work on Solaris.
>
>Anyways, the code to debug is
> 
> pango/pango/fribidi.c/pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels()
>
>It's sort of complex code, but the result should just be one directional
>segment at level zero, so seeing where that goes wrong may not be hard.
>
>Regards,
>                                        Owen
>
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