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authorElOraiby <wael.eloraiby@gmail.com>2015-05-30 20:58:29 -0400
committerElOraiby <wael.eloraiby@gmail.com>2015-05-30 20:58:29 -0400
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A small and simple implementation that transform isolated arabic utf8 character
strings into contextual forms useful for rendering (rendering example is provided).
+This is mostly suitable for lightweight UIs (embedded systems, games, media players...).
+It's worthy to note that this is far more lightweight than HarfBuzz (used by Qt/Pango...).
+Freetype 2 on the other hand lacks this functionality.
+
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Example ([Khalil Gibran](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran)'s Al-Nay):
![ScreenShot](https://raw.github.com/eloraiby/arabtype/master/example.png)