[Fedora-trans-ar] Re: Arabic issue #27: QFontDialog::getFont doesn't display the sample text in the language of the font

[Lars Knoll]

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:27, Munzir Taha wrote:
> On Yau al-Thulatha 27 Muharram 1426 11:29, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > > PROBLEM:
> > > The QFontDialog box doesn't display the sample text in the
> > > language/characters available. I expect to see Arabic letters when I
> > > select Fonts with only Arabic letters available. This should be
> > > detected automatically if possible. Otherwise, in case of fonts which
> > > supports many languages there should be a Language combo box as in
> > > OpenOffice.org.
> >
> > Which is difficult. What's the default language of e.g. Tahoma, that
> > support all of Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and maybe 3 or 4
> > others?
>
> Lars! Never have I mentioned something about a default language. I
> mentioned that if the font supports only one language then its characters
> should be displayed. I also mentioned that in the case of fonts which
> supports many languages the user _should_ specify the language on which he
> want to see the sample. Or else why do we need that sample text? Only for
> English? Is it fair?

As you might have noticed, the sample chars vary with teh writing system you 
set in the font dialog. The writing system enum also limits the fonts to 
those that can display. So if you set the writing system to "arabic" you are 
guaranteed that all the fonts you get in the family list support arabic.

What QFontDialog should probably do is to pick the initially selected writing 
system according to the systems locale.

Lars

> > This is the reason why we didn't go that way. If you select arabic in the
> > font dialog, and you will get the arabic sample chars and only see the
> > fonts supporting arabic in the family list.
>
> May be I am misunderstanding your point. But I don't think there is any
> problem. Every one who used M$ Word and OpenOffice.org got used to see the
> sample text in his language.
>
> > > Another note is that the "Writing System" QComboBox doesn't sort the
> > > items alphabetically in the Writing System combo box so it's
> > > rather difficult to find the script.
> >
> > It probably should, you're right.
>
> Good!