Write activity doesn't do Arabic shaping

[khaled]

Write activity fails to fully shape Arabic text. When I type the text most letters are shaped and few aren't. Doing some operations on the text like changing its size, alignment and so, sometimes cause the unshaped letters to be shaped, after closing the document and opening it again, all previously written text is shaped properly while new text shows the same problem.

[khaled]

Screenshot, word 2 and 3 in line 1 and word 2 in line has unshaped, while last word is completely unshaped

[khaled]

sorry, the previous files missed an extension

[jg]

Since it doesn't appear we'll see Arabic in use before Trial-3, I'm assigning the milestone there.

[jg]

Khaled, can you test in a current build?

[khaled]

I tested it with 541, still getting the same issue. BTW, mainstream Abiword seems to be OK.

[khaled]

With more close look, it seems not to be a shaping only problem, but rather a more general problem of abiword not applying opentype tables. I was testing with a font that has anchor points for Arabic diacritics, the unjoined letters also ignores those anchor points and I guess this would be the case for all opentype features.

[jg]

Khaled, could you check this with a current build? We have a more recent pango.

[khaled]

I can say nothing changed as of 593 build, looks like Abiword is known for its bad Arabic support among Arabic users.

[uwog]

tf: any insights into this one?

[gregorio]

Hi Khaled,

Can you help us with this?

Can you send me an e-mail and we can start triaging Arabic issues?

contact me at greg at laptop.org

Thanks,

Greg S

[uwog]

Fixed in AbiWord's STABLE tree. Will be in the AbiWord 2.6.5 release.

[martin.langhoff]

This is getting rolled into 8.2.2.

[gregorio]

I still get the occassional e-mail from this bug db :-)

Great job fixing this one (aka integrating upstream code). Perserverance pays off.

Drop me a line sometime and keep up the good work!

Thanks,

Greg S