[Typo3] Right-To-Left GIFBUILDER TEXT object property

["Jesús H."]

Dear Ahmad,

I know that although I can't read it or write it (I am Spanish :)). They 
connect toghether depending on the letter combination. I already was 
able to call a function (Thanks to Joey [JoH]) to reverse the characters.

As well is already done on the example scripts in /media/scripts 
directory that parses the title of the page and put it RTL when passes 
it to GIFBUILDER.

Now I face the problem you mention; they are in the right possition but 
they don't connect. So I've been checking for algorythms that can check 
the possition of the letter and swap it on the fly for the connected one 
depending on the next.

The only one I've found is based on character possition of the map which 
you have to hardcode in an array, and seems the only option by now for 
us to work with. I didn't made it to work. It is ready for UTF-8 but in 
typo3 the lang charset for Arabic as you know is windows-1256. So we 
should pass it by a PHP function called utf8_encoder (if I don't 
remember bad) and then return it back to the GIFBUILDER whom will do our 
  job. I

Anyway that is my main idea by now. If I archieve this task I'll make it 
public so maybe can be implemented in GIFBUILDER, or as an external PHP 
userfunction, meanwhile the IM Group implement it on their software.

If you or anybody knows anything about a script that can do this joining 
calculation of the characters, please post it so I can check them as well.

The one I've found was at phpclasses.org.

Best regards,

Jesús H.


ahmad wrote:
> Hi Jesús				
> I sought about this in ImageMagick site but I did not find anything on it . It seems the soulotions should be from ImageMagick but it does not support RTL .
> 
> The problem is the most of LTR language charachters are independent to other charachters. if I tyoe A this will be A to the end of typing . but it RTL languages the charachters are conditional in change , Like Capital and Small letters we have first / middle / end conditions for some charachters so : if first I type "ح" next "م" and next "د" and the rusult is : "حمد" the IE knows now that if I type these 3 charachters after each other it should convert them to a condition that is another charachter in table .  as I know image magick is not programmed for this conditional charachters that all RTL languages has . so حمد rendered د‌م‌ح or nothing at all . 
> 
> I don't know about GD Libraries but UNICODE is a complete best solution for our languages to now . 
> 
> - ahmad (ahmad)
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> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I've searched with no result and studied TSRef looking for it, but seems
>>I can't find this -> I need to render the elements of a menu (Right To
>>Left language) in GIFBUILDER but although in the pagetree displays
>>correctly (Right-To-Left), it doesn't shows up correctly when rendered
>>by GIFBUILDER.
>>
>>The fonts are correctly parsed from the fontFile but not Right-To-Left
>>displayed.
>>
>>Does anybody have an idea on how to solve it in the case it has a
>>solution?.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Jesús H.
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