-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 June 2004 02:49, 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. In my memory it is the latter (opening bracket), but Unicode says both ;) http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf (page 3 of that document refers to a discussion on semantics of paired bracketing characters which I could not find). > > > 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? How can the application know that ? (to me that will create some complications). I think of the following: - - Change the cursor shape only for texts that contain languages that have different directions (when there are only Arabic chars, the cursors should be shapeless: '|'). or - - Make the cursor's shape '|`' even for LTR-only scripts. > > > 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! No, I don't confirm... Moving the mouse while selecting the texts works the same as for Latin chars for me (tested in konqueror, kmail, (mozilla :) etc etc). Update: After installing MDK 10.0 and thus KDE 3.2 I'm observing this now in konqueror and kmail (only with 'static' texts, ie not those that you can edit). Seems indeed like a KDE bug to me, to be confirmed as a QT one (seems like it wasn't there before). Anyway, for now it's only you and me discussing these issues and it seems that we have different opinions/expriments on the subject. I think we need others' opinions (especially the Unicode/Bidi experts on the first two issues ;) Salam, - -- Youcef R. Rahal Arabeyes.org http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAws98HDRR6Cd0eSYRAtw6AKD8WsnUlcle48zZyjiaLt8YwAjohwCfcFPv ux9Fh0VMGlz1ik+vHzQI0h0= =4cFL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
