Re: Valid UTF-8 text mangled up in GtkLabel

2005-08-06 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
solution to this problem? Regards, - yba On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: 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 fi

Re: Valid UTF-8 text mangled up in GtkLabel

2005-08-05 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
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 GUI application. In almost all Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew