[mapserver-dev] log2vis no multi-line support

[Jeff McKenna]

Jerry please always respond to the mailing list, so all can follow..

On 2017-12-23 12:04 PM, Jerry Huang wrote:
> It seems that the developers of FriBidi hasn't given a convenient way to 
> solve this problem. Other than splitting the string ourselves and then 
> recombining using log2vis, or by using the pipeline shown in 
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fribidi/2008-January/000515.html 
> , there isn't really an easier answer, unless someone reconstructed the 
> pipeline outside of FriBidi as a third package or something.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Jeff McKenna 
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Jerry,
> 
>     I am wondering, since log2vis seems to be deprecated (MapServer
>     issue: https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/5491
>     <https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/5491>), besides
>     spitting out an error, is there a way to better handle line breaks? 
>     In other words, if we cannot use fribidi_log2vis() because it is
>     deprecated, what should we be using?
> 
>     (Jerry's pull request:
>     https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/5535
>     <https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/5535>)
> 
>     (background for others: Jerry is a highschool developer contributing
>     to MapServer as part of the Google Code-in.   If others can help
>     provide feedback here or in the pull request that would be very helpful)
> 
>     -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     On 2017-12-20 12:02 PM, Jerry Huang wrote:
> 
>         It seems that log2vis is deprecated because it doesn't support
>         multi-line paragraphs. See:
>         https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fribidi/2008-January/000515.html
>         <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fribidi/2008-January/000515.html>
>         I added a if statement that would throw an error given a
>         multi-line paragraph.
> 
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