On Yaum al-Ithnain 11 Rabi` al-Thaani 1425 06:46 pm, Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote: > Salam, > > On Wednesday 26 May 2004 19:56, Munzir Taha wrote: > > 1. In a QLineEdit: brackets, braces, parenthesis, > > greater and less than signs, ... are always reversed. Please check > > yourself against the latest snapshots and give feedback. > > Yes. I do confirm and this is not specific to KDE, it's QT's. However, now > that I think about it, I'm not sure this is a bug anymore. I mean an > 'opening bracket' is supposed to stay 'opening' even if you change from LTR > to RTL, no ? This is the same for the '>' sign and Co. For example, in LTR, > you write '2 > 1', if you reverse the direction, you should read '1 < 2'. > > What do others think ?
Is it LEFT PARENTHESIS or an open parenthesis? I think you will be right if Unicode naming is wrong. So it's a bug somewhere. > > 2. Another point: switching the language to Arabic should change the > > shape of the cursor to point to the left (something like `| not |` ). > > Now, this happen when one begins typing in Arabic the correct behavior > > should be upon switching the language not begining typing with the > > language, isn't it? > > Not sure. When there's no text in a QLineEdit, or only Latin chars, the > cursor has no shape (it's a '|' actually). The cursor changes shape only > when there are Arabic chars (mixed with Latin or not) and its direction > notes the QLineEdit's alignment. This looks very logical to me (well, maybe > the cursor should be shapeless too when there are only Arabic chars in the > QLineEdit's alignment is RTL). > > What do others think ? Don't you like to know which lang is going to be typed from the cursor shape before begining to type and discover you have to switch the keyboard layout? > > 3. The dancing effect(tm): This happens for example when I select an > > Arabic text in a message I received in kmail or in konquror. Of course > > you need to describe it in a better way. I well remember someone (nadim?) > > has said something about this somewhere (putty?) before. > > I don't understand what you mean. You need to explain it a little. I am not sure if I can explain it better. Go to any Arabic site like aljazeera.net. Select any line of text with your mouse. Keep pressing the mouse and unselect it. I mean move your hand as if you are brushing your teeth in an unheathy way from left to right and to left again. You will see the dancing text. Sigh! -- 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
