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)
>
> --
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