Major rendering bug affecting Hebrew in pango has been fixed

Major rendering bug affecting Hebrew in pango has been fixed

Amos Shapira amos.shapira at gmail.com
Sun Aug 23 04:05:08 IDT 2015


Is this the same code used in Android?
Just today I read a Hebrew article in Pocket (https://getpocket.com/) on my
Nexus 5 and was reminded that it still justifies the "mobilized" version to
the left.

On 23 August 2015 at 05:53, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com> wrote:

> This might be interesting to someone on the list.
>
> A major bug affecting rendering of Hebrew with justification in pango has
> been fixed after more than 8 years.
>
> See the following animated gif showing the rendering before and after the
> latest pango updates.
>
> https://bug753772.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=309871
>
> Though the animated gif shows Hebrew with nikud, the problem exists just
> the same without nikud.
>
> My only contribution was reporting the bug and giving feedback to Behdad
> who fixed it.
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
>
>
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