[reportlab-users] Arabic (Was: setup.py version info)

Dinu Gherman reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:41:21 +0100


sarah el-lawindy:

> hi there,
> =A0 i am a new memeber in this group as well as python in general.=20
> during my work i found out about reportlab, and how fasinating this=20
> package is, anyway, i was asking whether anyone tried to make=20
> reportlab work with arabic language or not. if anyone tried it before=20=

> i hope he/she replies back.
> =A0 thanks in advance ...

It depends on what you want to do. I'm not sure you can use Platypus
already for any right-to-left text writing systems, but I've done
some experiments with graphics. Here's a sample:

   http://python.net/~gherman/tmp/test_exoticclock.pdf

By the way, can you tell me if the numbers 10 and 12 are correct? ;-)

Regards,

Dinu

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