Hi Behdad, Jonathan,
> I use gedit on a daily basis to type text with Persian and
> English paragraphs, and I want my Persian paragraphs to be set ar
> RTL and aligned to right, and English paragraphs LTR and aligned
> to left.
I doubt this opinion is shared by many... My own preference is to
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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
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,
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
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
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Gaurav Jain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set the text in a GtkLabel to a UTF-8 string, which
> contains some arabic characters first, followed by my email address in
> angle brackets, followed by my name in round brackets. For e.g., a
> sample value is:
>
> X <[EMAIL PROTECT
Hello Behdad,
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.
I mean, it's not the "direction" of the brackets, it's the
Hi,
I'm trying to set the text in a GtkLabel to a UTF-8 string, which
contains some arabic characters first, followed by my email address in
angle brackets, followed by my name in round brackets. For e.g., a
sample value is:
X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Gaurav Jain)
In the above, 'X' represents a val
