2009/2/1 Amit Aronovitch <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Following a discussion I took part in about standartization of the > display of Hebrew text in structured expressions and source code, I > would be happy to hear some opinions about how we would like regular > expressions containing bidi chars to be displayed (in an "ideal > editor" that is fully syntax aware).
I just keep all my non-ASCII strings in a separate UTF8 file and load it some time in the beginning. (I usually use a stupid tab-separated file and put it in a hash; i've been telling myself to try gettext or MakeText for years.) Even Latin based non ASCII characters (Catalan or Lithuanian, for example) give a lot of troubles. Hebrew is worse. Worse than Hebrew are Arabic and Thai. I don't expect this to become easier any time soon, not even with Perl 6. Bidirectionality is just the tip of the iceberg. Here's a problem that few Hebrew speakers probably considered: Unlike most people, i often work with Hebrew text with niqqud, and niqqud is supposed to be combined with the letters. But the actual fonts support it badly, so code cannot be displayed nicely; and that is quite unacceptable. The only solution - keep all the strings in a separate file. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni heb: http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng: http://aharoni.wordpress.com cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus: http://amire80.livejournal.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
