that would sure have saved us a lot of troubles, but I also heard that there was some patch to pervious X version that add bidi support anyone remembers? does it work?
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > > well, I do think that it should be done by a higher level toolkit. Like in > > windows.... > > > > Please remember that shift9 means open braces, and shift0 means close them. > > How they are represented on screen is another thing. X is doing something that > > before qt did. I actually bereave the bidi should be rendered inside X and > > not gtk or qt. > > > > This is exactly just like logical hebrew again. Before people used visual > > hebrew since logical was not available, but when logical was available it had > > broken the visual which was hacked. > > Quite frankly this is also my opinion. But when I stated it on > ivrix-discuss, the majority of the opinions there were that the mirroring > should be done in the keymap level. > > Add to that the fact that the two newer "bidi" keyboard layouts (Farsi and > Syriac) have parens mirrored. (Though The arabic one doesn't have > mirroring), and I did want to reduce inconcintency within XFree. > > Some references: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.region.israel.ivrix.discuss/37 > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.region.israel.ivrix.discuss/91 > > (BTW: news://news.gmame.org/gmane.linux.region.israel/ is this list, for > those who didn't know) > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
