On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Gaurav Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set the text in a GtkLabel to a UTF-8 string, which > contains some arabic characters first, followed by my email address in > angle brackets, followed by my name in round brackets. For e.g., a > sample value is: > > X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Gaurav Jain) > > In the above, 'X' represents a valid sequence of arabic UTF-8 > characters. The problem that I see is that when I run this program > (appended to this mail), the output shown is something like this: > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Gaurav Jain> X > > Note that the angle and round brackets are all messed up, and that > order of arabic and ascii words is also wrong.
Apparently our milages do vary ;). > Does anyone know WHY this is happening? Yes, because Arabic is written from right to left, unlike Latin. And this behavior is part of the Unicode standard. > Just for information, I'm using GTK 2.4.14. Also, > I was surprised to discover that this works fine with an older version > of GTK (2.0.9). Right. Because /bidi/ was not implemented completely in that version. This specific part of bidi that is causing problems for you is called automatic paragraph direction. > Does something special need to be done so I can get > it to work with GTK >= 2.4? It /is/ working. If you like to get the behavior similar to the old one, you need ot insert a U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK character at the beginning of the buffer. > Thanks, > Gaurav --behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
