On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Shlomo Solomon <[email protected]>wrote:
> I tried that and it does work, but there's no way I'll get my wife to do > that > - there's got to be an easier way :-( > > Is the KDE team or the people who handle Hebrew support aware of this > problem? > Should it be reported as a bug? > > I think they are, but voting for it and commenting/confirming should help (e.g. ask them to add the "¶<" and ">¶" icons to the toolbar, at least as a plugin) : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181311 Note that they say that RightCtl+Shift should do the trick (but you might have to select the whole text before). BTW, in thunderbird, the shortcut for changing directionality is Ctrl+Shift+X (but I think you can set the default direction to RTL in the options) On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Shlomo Solomon <[email protected]>wrote: > I tried that and it does work, but there's no way I'll get my wife to do > that > - there's got to be an easier way :-( > > Is the KDE team or the people who handle Hebrew support aware of this > problem? > Should it be reported as a bug? > > > On Monday 07 June 2010, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: > > Hello, Aharon! > > > > It will drive you nuts all the same, but you should insert an RLM (right > > to left Mark), not an RLE. > > > > Shalom (Regards), Mati > > Bidi Architect > > Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts > > IBM Israel > > Phone: +972 2 5888802 Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 > 52 > > 2554160 > > > > > > > > > > From: > > Aharon Schkolnik <[email protected]> > > To: > > [email protected], [email protected] > > Date: > > 07/06/2010 17:19 > > Subject: > > Re: Hebrew e-mail - Mandriva 2010.0 - KDE4 > > Sent by: > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > I can confirm this extremely annoying problem in KMAIL under Fedora. > > > > The only way I know to get punctuation at the end of a line in Hebrew is > > to right click and choose insert unicode character and choose RLE start > > right to left embedding. This drives me nuts when I need to send a lot of > > Hebrew emails ! > > > > On Sunday, June 06, 2010, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > > On Sunday 06 June 2010, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > What is you mailer? > > > > > > > > If it's KMail, then you need to switch the direction of writing the > > > > email using Ctrl+Shift. Also see that the Bidi functionality is > > > > enabled in > > > > > > > > qtconfig. > > > > > > Yes, it's KMail. > > > > > > I ran qtconfig and enabled Bidi (it was not enabled) After seeing your > > > mail, I found the following link explaining how to enable it: > > > http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/40434.html. > > > > > > I then restarted X, but Ctrl-Shift doesn't do anything. As I wrote > > > earlier, the fonts are OK (I use Alt-Shift as the keyboard layout > > > toggle between English and Hebrew). The only problem is punctuation > > > marks. I can "manually" align to the right using the icon on the > > > toolbar, but the punctuation marks still come out wrong. > > > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Sent by KMail 1.12.4 (KDE 4.3.5) on LINUX Mandriva 2010.0 > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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