[maemo-developers] RSS Feed Reader not displaying Arabic properly after installing the Arabic Fonts

[From: Mohammed Hassan]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 07:59 -0800, ext Al Khadra wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Nokia N800 with OS 2007 and firmware 4.2007.26-8.
> 
> Before installing the Arabic font package for microb, the arabic web
> sites used to display small boxes with Hex values.
> After installing the Arabic font package I was able to see arabic web
> sites properly in microb browser. The problem is with the RSS Feed
> Reader. After installing the arabic fonts it began to show arabic, but
> the letters were not connected (each word in arabic must have its
> letters connected). To see how it looks like, please check the
> screenshot at the following link:
> 
> http://tyros.leb.net/n800/screenshot00.png
> 
> What I noticed is that the RSS Feed Reader is using the Opera engine
> and that's why it's not displaying arabic properly.
> This issue can be fixed if you include an option in the RSS Reader's
> menu to "Set Engine", just as you did with the Web browser. If the RSS
> Reader's engine is set to microb I believe the issue will be resolved.
> 

The RSS feed reader works fine with 2008 OS after installing the Arabic
fonts and rebooting.

2008 OS will also be available for N800. Please be patient :-)

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Localization Engineer
OSSO - Nokia Multimedia