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Re: 'r2l' continuation

Tzafrir Cohen
Tue, 03 Jul 2001 06:44:39 -0700

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, guy keren wrote:

>  netscape (browser and mail)

Maybe latest biditext won't work if you are not using netscape with the
"turkish patch", as it checks the charset of font in the drawn string, and
only reverses for some "hebrew" charsets.

[ anybody wants to do the little extra work for arabic support? ]

>  xterm

(OT: although everybody is welcome to try the latest xterm with bidi
support)

>  gedit
>  icq clients (licq, and the like)

licq previously had a problem with loading biditext.so . This seems to be
gone now.

>  irc clients (xchat and the likes)
>  anything to add to this list (please don't state "koffice" - that's
>  quite otuside our scope, and it'll have its own bidi anyway).

Why not?

Actually, I noticed something strange regarding kedit/kde2. But maybe this
is common to qt2's text box widget: biditext seems to work too well with
it.

As you probably know, bisitext generally works fine for displaying text,
but whenever the text changes, things start to become strange. Also,
whenever some text is selected, you get to see strange behaviour.

It seems that this mostly doesn't hapen with kedit. I can select a text as
much as I like, and it won't be misplaced. Actually such a kedit is
relatively useful ass a bidi text pad.

Also: we need to test how it behavves with various kinds of clients

* gtk app
* qt2 apps 
* qt1 apps
* xaw apps
 ...

> meanwhile, others (groupB) will check (discuss and _implement_) code that
> will use X properties to handle the communications.

( I'm interested)

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