Sorry for not being clear. I actually meant that it should be controllable
by the programmer.
Looking at the documentation for GtkTextTag I realized that there is a
property "direction", that by default has the value GTK_TEXT_DIR_NONE .
What happens if you change it to GTK_TEXT_DIR_LTR? Will it no
--- On Mon, 4/23/12, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> Lots of years ago we spoke about having a direction override as a paragraph
> attribute, but we never got around to implementing it.
I think it is a good idea to give control to the programmer rather than make it
automatic.
Making everything automat
Indeed there is no higher level override determine the text direction. You
have to change the buffer contents to get what you want. The easiest way of
doing this is by inserting the character zero-width character LRM (U+200E)
before your first RTL character.
Lots of years ago we spoke about having
How can I force GtkTextView object to use left to right rendering when I type
in a character which has the default behavior of being from a RTL language? I
need this behavior when I mix some RTL characters with LTR characters and the
first character on a line is of RTL type.
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