Am Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 23:56 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > Hossein Noorikhah wrote: > > > I think the bidirectional code should be rewritten to match the > > Unicode branch. > > Are you up to the task? That would be very good news. I don't think > there is any knowledgeable in this field or is there?
YES. AFAIK we have nobody who knows RTL languages well anough. Hossein, if you want to fix this you are most welcome. Be assured that we all try to help where possible. > > May be we can use libfribidi(http://www.fribidi.org) > > to handle bidirectional text. > > Any ideas on this issue? > > Not an idea but a question: > > Is there a reason why we don't use the toolkit capability WRT > bidirectional text? Qt is known to handle that perfectly AFAIK. GTK can > use Pango or something like that. I agree. We should use the toolkit bidi support if at all possible. I believe that the reasons for not doing so no longer exist (xforms, maybe suboptimal bidi support in qt2). Georg
