[reportlab-users] RTL Patch Committed

[Yoann Roman]

Muayyad AlSadi wrote...

> no need for icu, my mu.py works

> 

> I've add mu.py in reportlab/pdfgen/ and after importing pyfribidi I 

> put from mu import shape as muShape

> 

> then replaced

> text = log2vis(text, directions.get(self.direction, DIR_ON))

> 

> with

> text = log2vis(muShape(text), directions.get(self.direction, DIR_ON))


What does your mu.py do differently than Fribidi's Arabic shaping? It 
still seems to be font-independent, so I assume you're doing Unicode 
character substitution. If that's the case, since the RTL support 
requires Fribidi, why not use Fribidi's shaping as well?

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Yoann Roman