Good for us!
But before you start the party, you must remember that many software vendors
promised Hebrew/BiDi support and delivered none.
Watch this list's threads (and maybe Ivrix's) and see how many
projects/applications started with the promise to support our weird language (we
write the other way around... :-) ) and how many of them actually supported
Hebrew eventually.
QT 2.0 should have supported Hebrew itself (as part of the unicode support) but
it doesn't.
It just doesn't seem to worth the effort for those how make it (remember that
Microsoft's OS and business applications' Hebrew support isn't done on pure
business ground -- it doesn't really pay off for them, and they keep threating
that the next version of __(whatever)__ will not be localized)
If QT and GTK+ were to support Hebrew natively (without companion libraries or
patches), maybe Linux wouldn't have been an underdog in this area. Every library
would have been released along with the Hebrew support with Hebrew support (as
opposed to Windows 9X, where we wait 3 monthes for a Hebrew version and 3 more
for a localized version). Microsoft already implemented the native Bidi approach
in it's application and the upcoming Windows 2000. Where are we?
Udi Finkelstein wrote:
I don't know if this has been discussed before, but GNOME 2.0 is supposed to
include support UNICODE and bidirectional text:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/09/24/1056215mode=nocomment
Quote:
.."Internationalization. Owen Taylor at RHAD Labs is working full-time on
internationalization issues in GTK+; we will support Unicode, and all kinds of
writing systems (including bidirectional text). Very few (if any) toolkits
support internationalization to this extent. "
Udi
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