Wrong rendering of Arabic characters

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OS: Ubuntu Feisty (7.04)

In Gedit program, when typing Arabic characters (using SCIM or pasting them), they are not shown and printed properly.
If the fonts setting in Gedit is changed from "Monospace" font to "Sans", the problem disappear (Monospace is the default mono-space font in Ubuntu Gnome).

This problem also happen with Mozilla Thunderbird (both problems, showing and printing), when typing Arabic characters using SCIM or pasting them in the mail editor in "Fixed width" mode, and disappear in "Variable width" mode.

Could you attach a screenshot of the bug?

En/na Sebastien Bacher ha escrit:
> Could you attach a screenshot of the bug?
>

Here I send You 1/2 screenshot.

Here I send You 2/2 screenshot.

We need some Arabic font expert here.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

I am not a Arabic expert but i have some informations:
In memory a Arabic word is as usual "Stand alone letter" separated by a space. But on screen a word is letters "ligatured". We cannot read a text who use "stand alone" letters as other language. In a Linux machine the job is done by pango who choice the glyph of the ligatured letter depending of place inside the word, start, middle, end and letter before and after. There is 7 rules to find the good one. The glyph used is generally just a part of the "stand alone letter" so an Arabic word seem very short.

So write Arabic using monospace letter seem just ... not possible.

well, arabic sentences in gedit using monospace font is now shown properly, so for me the problem is solved.

Many thank.

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