Re: Help with Pasting of RTL languages into a field

2019-05-13 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Also it may help to relate this back to our own language: what alignment should be used consistently for English text? Left? Are you sure? :) In fact it's also common enough to align center (title), right (date), etc. Left is only the default. Each par (and even tab stops) must be able to i

Re: Help with Pasting of RTL languages into a field

2019-05-13 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
I've just started playing "silly monkeys" over here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32603 Richmond. On 13.05.19 23:45, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 5/9/2019 12:15 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I have a  test stack with a single scrolling field under LC904rc2

Re: Help with Pasting of RTL languages into a field

2019-05-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 5/9/2019 12:15 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I have a  test stack with a single scrolling field under LC904rc2. The textDirection for the field is the default of "auto" meaning it should align LTR  languages (like English) to the Left and RTL languages (like Arabic or Hebrew) to th

Re: Help with Pasting of RTL languages into a field

2019-05-10 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Paul: > When I paste in RTL text (Arabic for example) > it is incorrectly Left aligned. The Dictionary may take a little poetic license with textDirection behavior; text renders inline per the rules, but I think par align is still up to the coder. You could detect the Unicode block when past

Help with Pasting of RTL languages into a field

2019-05-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a  test stack with a single scrolling field under LC904rc2. The textDirection for the field is the default of "auto" meaning it should align LTR  languages (like English) to the Left and RTL languages (like Arabic or Hebrew) to the Right. English and other LTR test is correctly Left ali