I think it's slowly moving in the direction of usability in a RTL context, but getting it to really work (esp. with bidirectional support - numbers and so forth being rendered left-to-right in the middle of the right-to-left data) is going to be a lot of work, and this hasn't been enough of an issue to justify making it a high priority for our developers. Of course, patches to make it work would be quite welcome.
-Mark Gordon On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:35 -0800, G B wrote: > I may be naive but it seems you stopped just an inch > from making us RTL readers real happy - > "just" add a button/option that inverts word order in > all document lines (no promises made)... > > A second invert can just reload the e-mail; forget > about selecting blocks or answering in RTL. > Just seeing it displayed properly would be grand! > > I guess it ain't that simple... > -Gill > > PS another way would be not to invert anything, > use mirror-reflected fonts, and advise us to hold our > own mirror against the screen :) > Just don't send us off to m$ to read it! > > --- Mark Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:10 -0800, G B wrote: > > > Has anyone had luck with any of these? > > > > > > On my evo 1.4.5 (mandrake 9.1) the words > > themselves > > > are inverted properly, but each line is is still > > > displayed from left to right (no big deal), and > > word > > > order is NOT inverted as it should be (MAJOR > > > headache). > > > > > > So instead of the proper (right to left) > > > lkj ihgf edcba > > > I see > > > edcba ihgf lkj > > > > > > Thanks, > > > -Gill > > > > I'm afraid you've pretty much described the current > > state of things RTL. > > You'll also notice some oddities if you select > > blocks of text. > > > > -Mark Gordon > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- Mark Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ximian, Inc. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
