Major rendering bug affecting Hebrew in pango has been fixed

[Dov Grobgeld]

No, pango isn't used in Android, so there is no connection. Pango is mainly
used in gnome and gtk programs like inkscape and gimp.

Dov

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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