Hi Omer, On Friday 05 June 2009, Omer Zak wrote: > First of all, if it is the case that all the Hebrew in your scripts > needs to appear in text strings, then it is a good idea to develop your > application with built-in localization support, for example using > gettext. > > Then you'll have to edit separate *.po files, which are easier to edit > using a BiDi enabled editor such as gedit.
Yes, I agree, it is good solution for localization. > If you need to embed Hebrew text in the script itself and it is not > amenable to localization, then I would be very curious to know when such > an use case happens. My experience so far is that in such cases, the > Hebrew strings are short, and the easiest way to edit them is by means > of an editor, which does not perform BiDi rendering i.e. read the Hebrew > strings from left to right while they are being edited. I'm planning to add BiDi support for ReportLab to make it possible to generate PDFs with RTL layout. So I need to describe all possible combinations of Hebrew-English-numeric in my python test files. Vika
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