About the shaping of Arabic glyphs and building of Arabic mandatory ligatures

Question

Hello

We are developing a screen with some Arabic texts. 

We have set the property "EnableBidiText" to true. But the texts show like this:. And our requirement is like this:.

It seems that the function of mandatory ligatures doesn't work. 

I am working with EW11.

So whether there are extra steps set the Arabic words ?

 

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello,

it is difficult to help you based on the provided description. It is not clear which character codes your string is using and which glyphs your font is providing...

But anyhow, please have a look to the example StringTable, that shows the usage of Arabic words. Within this example the range '\xFE70'-'\xFEFF' is added in order to achieve shaping.

Of course, the Arabic character set itself has to be added - either by selecting single glyphs (via FontRange.txt) or by selecting the entire range of Arabic glyphs ('\x0600'-'\x06FF').

For more information, let me refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_script_in_Unicode

Best regards,

Manfred.