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-rw-r--r--modules/arabic/arabic-lang.c44
2 files changed, 46 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 90cfd547..9ec6fbf5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2006-11-08 Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@farsiweb.info>
+
+ Bug 350132 – backspacing doesn't work properly for Arabic
+
+ * modules/arabic/arabic-lang.c: Add more backspace_deletes_character
+ cases.
+
2006-11-08 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org>
Bug 369670 – Crash when selecting text using the keyboard
diff --git a/modules/arabic/arabic-lang.c b/modules/arabic/arabic-lang.c
index 0bf0d52c..4d458442 100644
--- a/modules/arabic/arabic-lang.c
+++ b/modules/arabic/arabic-lang.c
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
/* Pango
- * arabic-fc.h:
+ * arabic-lang.c:
*
* Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat Software
- * Author: Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo@redhat.com>
+ * Copyright (C) 2006 Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc.
+ * Authors: Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo@redhat.com>
+ * Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@farsiweb.info>
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
@@ -47,6 +49,27 @@ static PangoEngineInfo script_engines[] = {
};
+#define ALEF_WITH_MADDA_ABOVE 0x0622
+#define YEH_WITH_HAMZA_ABOVE 0x0626
+#define ALEF 0x0627
+#define WAW 0x0648
+#define YEH 0x064A
+
+#define MADDAH_ABOVE 0x0653
+#define HAMZA_ABOVE 0x0654
+#define HAMZA_BELOW 0x0655
+
+/*
+ * Arabic characters with canonical decompositions that are not just
+ * ligatures. The characters U+06C0, U+06C2, and U+06D3 are intentionally
+ * excluded as they are marked as "not an independent letter" in Unicode
+ * Character Database's NamesList.txt
+ */
+#define IS_COMPOSITE(c) (ALEF_WITH_MADDA_ABOVE <= (c) && (c) <= YEH_WITH_HAMZA_ABOVE)
+
+/* If a character is the second part of a composite Arabic character with an Alef */
+#define IS_COMPOSITE_WITH_ALEF(c) (MADDAH_ABOVE <= (c) && (c) <= HAMZA_BELOW)
+
static void
arabic_engine_break (PangoEngineLang *engine,
const char *text,
@@ -70,11 +93,22 @@ arabic_engine_break (PangoEngineLang *engine,
this_wc = g_utf8_get_char (p);
/*
- * Unset backspace_deletes_character for various combinations:
+ * Unset backspace_deletes_character for various combinations.
+ *
+ * A few more combinations may need to be handled here, but are not
+ * handled yet, as expectations of users is not known or may differ
+ * among different languages or users:
+ * some letters combined with U+0658 ARABIC MARK NOON GHUNNA;
+ * combinations considered one letter in Azerbaijani (WAW+SUKUN and
+ * FARSI_YEH+HAMZA_ABOVE); combinations of YEH and ALEF_MAKSURA with
+ * HAMZA_BELOW (Qur'anic); TATWEEL+HAMZA_ABOVE (Qur'anic).
+ *
+ * FIXME: Ordering these in some other way may lower the time spent here, or not.
*/
if (G_UNLIKELY (
- this_wc == 0x0622 /* ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE */ ||
- (prev_wc == 0x0627 /* ARABIC LETTER ALEF */ && this_wc == 0x0653 /* ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE */)
+ IS_COMPOSITE (this_wc) ||
+ (prev_wc == ALEF && IS_COMPOSITE_WITH_ALEF (this_wc)) ||
+ (this_wc == HAMZA_ABOVE && (prev_wc == WAW || prev_wc == YEH))
))
attrs[i+1].backspace_deletes_character = FALSE;
}