Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| QT 4.x has made a lot of progress for Unicode rendering in the Scribe
| engine : http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qt4-scribe.html
|
| I've watched a demonstration by the developer Lars Knoll and I was quite
| impressed. It handles not only RTL language but also ligatures in arabic.
| For example, if you cut part of a word and break a ligature, it will
| repaint it correctly in the clipboard. It also works with some Indic
| languages which are more complex than Arabic or Hebrew. It manages the
| cursor correctly if for example you insert an English word in an Hebrew
| paragraph.
|
| Can't we leverage Trolltech's work in LyX ? Lars Knoll told us that it was a
| very difficult library to program because of the multiple subtle
| differences between languages.
That might be the easy way out.
IMHO it is a pity that Qt only supports ucs-2 and not ucs-4.
(not even for individual codepoints)
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Lgb
