I insist on my opinion that it's a bug with your version of Gtk+. Dov Grobgeld solved this bug in Gtk+ 2.4.
behdad On Sat, 22 May 2004, Munzir Taha wrote: > On Wednesday 19 May 2004 03:50 pm, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > On Wed, 19 May 2004, Munzir Taha wrote: > > > Xchat 2 is gtk+2 I think. > > > > > > I am using xchat xchat 2.0.7 and > > > # ldd /usr/bin/xchat > > > libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x40029000) > > > > > > Isn't this a proof? > > > > So simply grab the latest Gtk+ (Gtk+-2.4) and it works like a > > charm. > > If it's a GTk+ bug then this bug should be available in all GTK+ apps. This > bug (Typing English in xchat appears RTL when LANGUAGE=ar) is only available > in xchat. Up to now, Ahmed khalifa's explanation of the paragraph level tends > to be the most convincing. xchat need to calculate the paragraph level > depending upon the input text not upon the env variables. > > karouri, weak characters should have nothing to do with this bug because if > the paragraph level is set to 0 the weak characters should appear properly, > right? > > After reading part of the BiDi algorithm, I need some answers to understand > BiDi and Unicode better which will help in filing bugs later. > > - Why do we have AL and R? what's the difference between right-to-left in > Aabic and Hebrew? > > - Why do we have characters such as Arabic full stop which is different than > an English fullstop? > > - I think the thread which spoke about a poor BiDi implementation ends in the > conclusion it's not BiDi fault but implementation fault, if any, right? > Karouri, do you think typing C++ in an Arabic contex which prints ++C is a > bug? I personally thinks it's not but may be I didn't understood weak > characters well, or you want a plug sign to be classified as a strong > character which will cause more problems AFAIK. > > > --- > Munzir Taha PGP Key available > gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 > > Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer > Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org > Mandrake Club member > Maintainer of Mandrake Arabization Project Status (MAPS) > http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/mdkarabicsupport-en/ > CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS > New Horizons CLC > Riyadh, SA > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > > --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
