On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 10:46 +0200, Alan Yaniger wrote:
> Hi list-members,
> 
> I work on an RTL version of OOo, and I rely heavily on Unicode 
> formatting characters to make Bidi text look the way I want. However, 
> this causes a problem in Linux. The text in OOo looks fine, but text in 
> window titles is not displayed by OOo, but by a window manager. 
> Sometimes the window manager does not know how to handle these 
> formatting chars, and displays them as ugly boxes with hex numbers in 
> them. I would like to strip the formatting chars from such strings 
> before they are passed to the window manager. Where in the code would I 
> do this?

What window manager is this, something like metacity should be using
pango and fontconfig and be able to render (in theory at least) CTL
text. It might be a better long term strategy to fix the window manager
in this case.

C.

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