Why can't hebrew support be part of general-use products? MS Office2000 comes to mind as a proof that it can be done. The main missing piece is to add support into the graphics tool-kit (i.e. gtk, qt). If you want to translate the user interface you don't need anything else. Actually - if you would settle for visual hebrew, and just want to translate menus, dialogs, etc. - you don't even need bidi support in the widgets. All you need is that the program would allow the user to select the font for the gui. I've started translating windowmaker and lyx in that way, and it is suprisingly easy (although takes time to figure out how exactly one should translate all the terms, etc.). All it takes is a decent (plain) text editor with support of visual hebrew. You don't have to rebuild anything. Speaking of bidi support: * hopfully in the coming few monthes hebrew (and bidi) support will be added to mozilla. Note that the team from ibm-israel that is working on this project will only test this under win32 and os/2 (and maybe aix), and they rely on us users to test it on other platforms. * According to http://mosfet.org bidi support was added to the html module of KDE2's browser (Konquerer). Anybody here tried this? On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Ilya Khayutin wrote: > I was talking about full hebrew support, built-in into > gtk+. Not only a bidi widget but also give the ability > to create a hebrew UI and so on... This is what we > really need for Linux hebrew support. There more > applications then a text editor, a commonisrealy user > will also want more programs with hebrew support as: > the gimp , a spreadship and much more... I think we > should solve the problem from the root of it and not > provide temporary solutions. > > Bye, > Ilya -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
