Dov Grobgeld wrote:
I'm curious. Did your Hebrew support modifications include full BiDi
support? Did you write the bidi code yourself, or did you use some
known library?
I wrote about it extensively at the time:
http://blog.shemesh.biz/?p=726
As for the BiDi support, each Android installation already arrives with
TWO BiDi implementation. One inside the framework and another inside ICU
for C++, which is compiled for the platform in its completion, but only
used, as far as I can tell, to perform the BiDi character
classification. It might be used by non-Java code, or else why they did
not use ICU for Java is beyond me. Why they re-implemented that BiDi
algorithm (badly) and not used JNI is also beyond me.
As such, I saw it as a smart move not to add a third implementation. In
fact, I always try to avoid re-implementing complicated algorithms for
which good implementations already exist. As such, in all of my years of
dong BiDi work on various platforms, the number of complete
implementations of the UBA I have coded is zero. This is a fact I am,
actually, proud of.
Shachar
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com
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