On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking for either a small x-toolkit or bindings for a well known
> toolkit so that I can easily (Perl OOP) create widgets that display and
> edit ISO8859-8 text,

I don't suppose you want visual hebrew text. This is probably not
availalbe (and usually quite pointless)

> preferably bidi enabled/capable. The toolkit has to work with Perl, as I
> don't code c or c++, plus, it's for rapid apps prototyping.
>
> A unicode aware toolkit will be fine, if it provides methods for translating
> iso8859-8 encoded files on the fly into unicode.

Set the locale (LANG/LC_CTYPE) to he_IL.ISO-8859-8to get this effect from
QT2/QT3/gtk2. I'm not sure about TK.

>
> I checked for QT, and at last count there were no perl bindings. I also
> couldn't figure out if Perl-gtk does bidi, nor did I manage to find
> that out for Perl Tk.

No bidi support for TK, AFAIK.

> However, as I am not very familiar with GUI programming, I may have
> overlooked something, so correct me if I am wrong on QT or Perl-gtk.

You need gtk2/QT3 . I'm not sure what is the status of the perl
bindings for gtk2.

I also believe that both QT and gtk have python bindings. Though I realise
that learing a new language may be not the ideal "rapid prototyping" ;-)

(No flames, on perl vs. python, please)

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