>> Hebrew works for you in Kate? Is that KDE 3 or 4? KDE 4 Kate is very >> broken for Hebrew. If you do reply to this, part, maybe it should be >> broken off into another thread. > > KDE 3's Kate was horrible as far as Hebrew was concerned. I used kedit back > then. KDE 4's Kate is not too bad in Hebrew, but still could use a lot of > improvement. I hope to work on it some time when I'm in the mood, but I don't > know how deep I'll need to delve. One bug that has bothered me in KMail is > that long URLs get broken if they contain dashes. (That is tangential to > Hebrew support in KMail or Kate.) It was reported, but eventually was marked > as a Qt bug, and no one knows if it will get fixed or not and when. So > sometimes fixing something in KDE 4 and its apps requires delving into many > deeper layers. > > I've been looking in the direction of other Bidi-supporting editors, such as > gedit, geany, etc. but always found Kate to be the best for what I need to do. > I also recently wrote XML-Grammar-Fiction (also implementing a proto-source > text-based markup language) to facilitate working on an XHTML/DocBook/XML > document using Kate and other Bidi-ish editors: > > http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/XML-Grammar/Fiction/ >
Have you not been bitten by there bugs? Hebrew selection not showing https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192458 Right/left arrows do not work in RTL mode https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165397 Cursor direction dependent upon last letter typed, not selected keyboard layout https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172630 RTL: Directionality dependent upon word wrap https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187408 -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
