> 1. It's pretty preliminary. There's lots more to be done. That said, it
> is obviously good enough to display message boxes with Hebrew for people
> in a readable, if not perfect, ordering.

True.

> 2. The reason Office works so well with BiDi is because the document
> itself uses it's own code to reorder the characters. The windows (and
> therefor wine) code is only used for the surrounding text - menus,
> dialogs, etc.

I guess so. I don't a hebrew localized version of office yet.

> 3. There is currently NO CODE in wine to handle paragraph switching
> (CTRL-SHIFT). That is somewhat in the future. I have had several reports
> already that such behaviour is actually working under some
> circumstances. I believe that to be a feature of the window manager, and
> not of Wine, but I am a little out of resources for that particular
> aspect at the moment. At the moment, I mark that down as pure miracle. I
> installed KDE3 (via installing Mandrake 9.0) for the sole purpose of
> testing that particular behaviour, but had great difficulties getting
> KDE to work with Hebrew at all, and Mandrake 9.0 was too buggy in too
> tender spots at the moment, and so I switched back to Debian. When I get
> the time again, I'll install KDE3 on Debian and see what causes the
> miracle. 

No miracle at all. If you install the Office with LOCALE set to hebrew, then 
the office installer thinks you're running a Hebrew/Arabic version of 
Windows, and installs this part. 

For the purpose of testing, I re-installed here crossover office with hebrew 
LOCALE. Hebrew works perfect (including ctrl shift), but while being in 
hebrew in rtl mode (not push mode), the english words that I was typing 
became in reverse. example:

world hello ���� ����
which should be: hello world ���� ����

but that doesn't really bother me at this moment very much, as long as I can 
type my hebrew docs... :)

> All the above points aside, I do have a question about CrossOver's
> license. As it obviously has my code, it must be LGPL or stricter. In
> leu of the above, can someone who has it please:
> A. Let me know what license it uses
> or, if it is LGPL

It's LGPL'd + proprietary stuff (not proprietary in wine, but things around 
it.. scripts, tcl/tk stuff, file associations, menu's creations (For KDE & 
GNOME), reboot simulation, etc..

> B. Send it to me, or at the very least let me play around with it on
> his/her computer?

If you want to play with it here, be my guest ;)

Thanks,
Hetz

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