I tried that and it does work, but there's no way I'll get my wife to do that - there's got to be an easier way :-(
Is the KDE team or the people who handle Hebrew support aware of this problem? Should it be reported as a bug? On Monday 07 June 2010, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: > Hello, Aharon! > > It will drive you nuts all the same, but you should insert an RLM (right > to left Mark), not an RLE. > > Shalom (Regards), Mati > Bidi Architect > Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts > IBM Israel > Phone: +972 2 5888802 Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 52 > 2554160 > > > > > From: > Aharon Schkolnik <aschkol...@gmail.com> > To: > linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il, shl...@the-solomons.net > Date: > 07/06/2010 17:19 > Subject: > Re: Hebrew e-mail - Mandriva 2010.0 - KDE4 > Sent by: > linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il > > > > I can confirm this extremely annoying problem in KMAIL under Fedora. > > The only way I know to get punctuation at the end of a line in Hebrew is > to right click and choose insert unicode character and choose RLE start > right to left embedding. This drives me nuts when I need to send a lot of > Hebrew emails ! > > On Sunday, June 06, 2010, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > On Sunday 06 June 2010, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > What is you mailer? > > > > > > If it's KMail, then you need to switch the direction of writing the > > > email using Ctrl+Shift. Also see that the Bidi functionality is > > > enabled in > > > > > > qtconfig. > > > > Yes, it's KMail. > > > > I ran qtconfig and enabled Bidi (it was not enabled) After seeing your > > mail, I found the following link explaining how to enable it: > > http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/40434.html. > > > > I then restarted X, but Ctrl-Shift doesn't do anything. As I wrote > > earlier, the fonts are OK (I use Alt-Shift as the keyboard layout > > toggle between English and Hebrew). The only problem is punctuation > > marks. I can "manually" align to the right using the icon on the > > toolbar, but the punctuation marks still come out wrong. > -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.12.4 (KDE 4.3.5) on LINUX Mandriva 2010.0 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
