Re: Combining characters not rendered properly

[Christopher Fynn <cfynn@xxxxxxx>]

Andries Brouwer wrote:

...

> Now that this is being discussed, recently I needed to use
> vocalized Hebrew, and found that all that I tried was broken.
> Is there a version of Java, or a Java function perhaps other than
> Graphics.drawString(), that correctly handles vocalized Hebrew?
> Is there a version of Mozilla / Firefox that correctly handles
> vocalized Hebrew? With what font?

Java is still pretty lame as far as complex script support goes.

For Mozilla / Firefox make sure you are using a binary compiled
with Pango enabled. Several Linux distros ship with versions of
Mozilla/ Firefox compiled with Pango disabled.


- Chris


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