Re: [linuxiran] XFree86 4.3

[Arash Zeini]

On Monday 12 May 2003 17:00, Aryan Ameri wrote:

> On Monday 12 May 2003 01:18, Zoup wrote:
> > > > XFree86-4.2.99.2-xkb-ar.patch
> > > > XFree86-4.2.99.3-locale-alias-gb18030.patch
> > > > XFree86-4.2.99.3-mga-unresolved-symbols.patch
> > > > XFree86-4.2.99.901-xkb-sysreq.patch
> > >
> > > I would say that the first one, isthe one we need and then would
> > > come the ones after to make sure and have a look.
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Arash
> >
> > Agree , maybe "X keyboard  Arabic Patch" isn't it ?
>
> Yes, it is X keyboard Arabic patch. And it seems to be the right patch.

I am not sure!

> I looked at it, and the patch is pretty simple, it adds the unicode
> values of arabic to X. It also does include JEH, PEH, GAF and CHEH.

You have to explain! I am not sure how it adds the values to X. Remember that 
it is not enough to add the vlaues to the xkb map. That's waht we have in our 
map too. The problem is that these values are not passed to different X 
components/layers correctly. For KDE this problem has been taken care at the 
Qt level.
The lines that you see in the patch are comments, I guess as kind of a 
reference.

> Although it assumes that these are also arabic letters. I am not
> familiar with the Unicode table, and I don't know wether according to
> Unicode, if they are considered arabic or not. But anyway, the patch
> adds all arabic and farsi characters to X.

Yes Farsi is part of the Arabic code page. I.e., it is a "subset" of Arabic. 
The same applies to all the other languages that use a modified Arabic 
script.

Agreeing with ArashB I assume that the patch or improvement has happened 
somewhere in the lines of GTK or the like.

Greetings,
Arash

> Thanks to hossein, who really provided insight.
>
> The next steps in my opinion should be these:
>
> 1. Apply to patch to a non redhat system, and see if it works or not.
> 2. To make sure, get XFree86 from the XFree project itself (not from a
> distro) and compile it and then apply the patch to XFree86. If the
> patch also works there, then viola !
>
> 3. Then perhaps we should submit the patch to XFree86 and hope that they
> will add it in the comming years :-d
>
> One thing that is interesting, is that it seems the patch was written on
> Jan 2002, considering that the same patch is also included in RedHat 8,
> this makes sense. However, why haven't we been able to find this patch
> for one and a half year?
>
> Shame on us !! And hats off to Hossein and RedHat
>
> Cheers

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