On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Oren Held wrote:

> Hello,
>
> gtk2/gnome2 has a good hebrew support: It both supports bidi internally
> (the pango lib does it, actually), and has support for right-to-left
> windows. Just like the hebrew versions of windows (not hebrew enabled,
> the real hebrew versions).
>
> Well, personally I think that RTLed-windows are ugly. It's unnatural, at
> least in most cases, when most of the text inside is english anyway.
> One example is xchat (the 1.9.x development tree, which is based on
> gtk2)- on default it's running in rtl mode (the input-line is RTLed,
> even when you type in english), and unlike windows, you cannot change it
> to be ltr using ctrl+shift (maybe there's a key that I don't know?).
>
> I think that pango/gtk2 should be using some environment variable, in a
> similarway to LC_CTYPE, a gtkrc configuration option, which allows
> forcing ltr, or at least, a hotkey which flips the typing direction.
>
> Should I suggest these to pango's developers (which of the above 3
> options)? Would anybody do it by himself? or am I stupid and these
> features already exist?

First of all, this is an issue of gtk and not pango. Pango only does the
rendering.

I don't recall how to modify that globally.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
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