I wasn't thinking. I believe there is a solution to this. There are really two issues here and one is probably fixable but I haven't had the time to do the right stuff on Os/2.
The Bidi support in Mozilla can order be done by the OS or by Mozilla. Currently OS/2 is using the Mozilla support even though it has OS/2 has better Bidi than Windows. This is mainly because I haven't had the time to do anything about it. I'll put this on our growing list of things to do. Mike Kaply IBM Stan Goodman wrote: > That's very interesting. > > On the same page on which the Hebrew problem appears, there is also > some French text, with properly placed accents. I assume that this is > because the author used "packaged" characters already containing the > accents, so that they didn't have to be assembled. > > But in all the years that I have been using OS/2, I have never > observed a case in which diacritics were not properly combined with > the characters on which they were inteded to operate. My conclusion is > that OS/2 relies on applications to do this assembly, whereas Windows > does it in the operating system; simply a different design decision. > > I do not think it is an adequate response to dismiss the problem as > being one for the operating system. The OS is a given, and Mozilla is > supposed to work with it, not the other way around. We are not going > to induce a change in any operating system because Mozilla doesn't > deal with this problem or that. > > As long as this problem was thought to be one of Hebrew rendering, it > was possible to regard it as peripheral: Hebrew is, after all, not a > world language; and anyway, vowel points are rarely used, except for > poetry and Biblical text. But French and German certainly are world > languages, as is Arabic (which has the same need for vowel-point > diacritics as Hebrew, and uses them more extensively), and their > writing systems ought to be supported. > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 03:48:32, Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > opined: > > > That would be an operating system issue than. Mozilla does not have code to do > > the combining. > > > > Mike Kaply > > IBM > > > > Henry Sobotka wrote: > > > > > Michael Kaply wrote: > > > > > > > > We haven't really tested the Hebrew support on Os/2 yet. There is probably > > > > a lot we could do, but we haven't. > > > > > > Not just a Hebrew problem. All the Unicode combining characters display > > > separately, e.g. A&x308; produces capital A followed by an umlaut, > > > instead of putting the umlaut on the A. > > > > > > h~ > > > > -- > Stan Goodman > Qiryat Tiv'on > Israel > > E-mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will, of course, not reach me. Sorry. > Send E-mail to: domain: hashkedim dot com, username: stan.
