On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 10:24:30AM +0000, Shai Berger wrote: > I think it is extremely important to keep the separation you mentioned, > between UI and serialization. My opinion is that it is much better to > add directional characters, because that is the proper way to keep > compatibility with other applications, including both copy-and-paste on > the desktop (which, I think, was mentioned on the OO.o.il mailing list) > and automatic processing of the OO.o XML files. What MS did is, > essentially, embracing and extending Unicode. I would hate to see OOo go > that way.
We already have the IME language used to input characters stored along with the characters. Do you think we should add control characters into our serialization as well, even when the direction is apparent from the IME language? (In contrast to cases when the user manually overrides the text's direction, when the automatic IME-based direction doesn't suit him.) > However, I do not think doing it properly is very simple. In general, if > the user changed her mind three times about which language she's going > to write next, you do not want three markers in the generated text. You > want the editor to figure it out, and only write the markers where > necessary. Making this work intelligently and consistently seems, on the > face of it, far from trivial. Doesn't sound like a very difficult optimization. Probably easier than tidying HTML :) ============================================================== To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe hebrew" in the message body.
