Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Hi Omer,
Using your original suggestion, the Arabic text could be displayed with 
correct joining when displayed in input (logical) order from 
right-to-left. This should work well for predominantly Arabic paragraphs 
with some embedded LTR text. The problem would be when diplaying an LTR 
language paragraph with some embedded Arabic text - it would be backwards 
of course, and the display system shaping algorithm that does the "rabt" 
could make the text look rather strange. But since this display is 
temporary, for the purposes of text selection, that might not be so bad.
Regards,

 - yba


On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Omer Zak wrote:

Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:44:44 +0200
From: Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-il <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:29 +0200, Matitiahu Allouche wrote:
I have some contacts with Arabic experts, and I can tell you that for
their market, showing unshaped (improperly connected) letters, even in
proper ordering, is considered unacceptable.  All the more with LTR
ordering.

Then a possible solution is to force all relevant text to RTL ordering
when there are more than 1-2 Arabic glyphs in the selection.  Thus, the
Arabs will be allowed to rule over the world in this case.


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