[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] [Tuxmath-devel] tuxtype and Arabic

[OMLX]

Thanks David for your reply...

I choose ae_AlMohanad font from Arabeyes fonts

http://packages.debian.org/etch/ttf-arabeyes

please let me know when you fix RTL issue to update Arabic theme and
add more files in words directory.


Fahad Al-Saidi

On 8/11/08, David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Fahad,
>
> On 8/5/08, OMLX <fahad.alsaidi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Now I am making Arabic theme for Tuxtype. I've finished this files:
>>
>> But when I played Tuxtype games the words not displayed , have a look to
>> screenshot.
>>
>> What is the problem??
>>
>
> Most likely, the problem is that the default font for Tuxtype does not have
> the glyphs required to display Arabic characters.  The menu text uses
> SDL_Pango, which somehow automatically selects an appropriate font.
> However, the games themselves (fish cascade and comet zap) try to display
> the characters using the currently selected font, which by default is
> Andika_Des_RevG.ttf, IIRC.
>
> If you need a different font (and it sounds like you do), you need to make a
> settings.txt file in your theme and specify the font name like this (from
> the Malayalam theme), using, of course, the actual name of your font:
>
> theme_font_name=Rachana_w01.ttf
>
> The font file itself needs to be added to data/fonts, and the Makefile.am's
> need to be updated accordingly.
>
> If you want your theme to be added to the project, find a font for Arabic
> that is in Debian.  I can take care of the adjustments to the Makefile.am's,
> etc in that case.
>
> One other thing to be considered - my understanding is that Arabic is
> written right-to-left, which the games do not currently support, so the
> words will come out looking "backwards" to an Arabic reader.  Maybe we can
> fix that at some point.
>
> David Bruce
>


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