> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > > > I hate it when libraries try to second-guess the users.
> > > >
> > > > How would you align the translation of the sentence "QT/KDE doesn't
> > > > support hebrew the same as Windows does."?
> > > >
> > > > Will there be a way for the user to override this?
> > >
> > >I think you can override it if you program your text box to be
> > > automatically right aligned. not sure
> >
> > Unicode defines some special characters for this. one of them is called
> > "right to left mark" (0x200f) and does exactly what you want if you add
> > it at the beginning of the line.
>
> But the context here is the whole text (maybe wra it with <RLE>...<PDF>?).
> Also note that adding such a mark actually changes the text, whereas the
> feature in question is regarding how the program displays the text

No quite true. If you have autodetection, the context is taken from the first 
character that has a strong directionality (in this case the RLM).

> (e.g: if this method is used, the text might eventually begin with
> <LRM><RLM><LRM><RLM>... ;-) )

That's easy to avoid in an editor ;-)

Lars


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