Re: Valid UTF-8 text mangled up in GtkLabel

2005-08-06 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Behdad, I will indeed try to keep the negative energy to a minumum. I have great admiration for your contributions to FOSS in general and to bidi users in particular and appreciate your patience in considering my dissenting views. My point about user selection is as follows. I write text

Re: Valid UTF-8 text mangled up in GtkLabel

2005-08-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Gaurav Jain wrote: > Hello Behdad, Hey, > Thanks for your quick response. I did understand what you stated > w.r.t. to the arabic text coming on the right, but I didn't quite > understand how the brackets that are coming are "correct" even for > right-to-left direction. Ok,

Re: Valid UTF-8 text mangled up in GtkLabel

2005-08-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > Hi Behdad, Gaurav, > IMHO this is *the* classic example of misapplied "bidi algorithm", that > is, the heuristic for determining base direction based on the first > strong directional. There is no reason ever to use this heuristic in any > normal G

Re: mounted device list

2005-08-06 Thread The Saltydog
On 8/5/05, Brian J. Tarricone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note that /proc/mounts is not portable... Is /etc/mtab portable? ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list

Re: time consuming function/loop

2005-08-06 Thread Yogesh M
its silly sometimes i miss easy solution or think about it too late --- John Cupitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/5/05, Yogesh M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thank you for the useful information, is there a > way i > > can give user an option to break the thread, like > > cancel button. >