Correction. Some widgets (e.g. List) have correct vowelization; others
do not.
On 10/03/2013 04:18 PM, D.Edmons wrote:
Okay, 5.18.1 appears to have correct/improved vowelization, but has all
the characters in left-to-right order still. The unwary programmer won't
always know when his/her UTF-8 string has Hebrew, English, or whatever.
The subsystem should be placing these in the correct order.
Has anybody else tried this? I have a simple script with a .ppm image
that illustrates the problem. Or should I just send in a bug report?
El'ad/Dale
On 10/03/2013 10:57 AM, D.Edmons wrote:
I'm rebuilding the latest stable release now. Will report as bug if it
is still there.
On 10/03/2013 10:23 AM, D.Edmons wrote:
Shlomi,
Thanks for the reply. I understand that there's better support
elsewhere, but often the learning curve is proportionally higher. I
chose perl/Tk for this reason. I currently use `leafpad` which suffices
for normal editing tasks. However, I'm wanting to put together a very
simple Hebrew style editor for basic tasks. One in particular is a
Hebrew study aid--mostly for myself.
So if perl/Tk is broken, then the thing to do is to write bug reports
and begin talking to `those in the know' and helping them to fix it. The
Hebrew idiom has been around for more than 3000 years and likely isn't
going away. Fixing it will save a *lot* of future bug reports. :) (Plus,
it's the right thing to do.)
Dale/El'ad
On 10/03/2013 01:05 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi Dale,
On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:37:14 -0700
"D.Edmons"<dedm...@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to perl, but have been programming for a couple decades--self
taught.
1) I've gotten perlTK to display two Paned windows, open two utf-8
files, and display them. However, the Hebrew vowels are not displayed
correctly. The vowels are displayed at the cursor position following
the consonant, rather than at the same cursor position (below,
above, or
in the middle of the consonant). Is this likely something in my code,
or a bug in perl? I'm guessing it is something in the Tk module that
handles unicode.
It is quite likely that perl/Tk does not support displaying Hebrew
properly,
and has poor support for Bidirectional text. If you want to handle
Hebrew and
other forms of Unicode properly, I suggest you take a look at other
widget
toolkits such as Qt (4 or 5), or Gtk+ (2 or 3), which I know handle
for certain
handle Hebrew and other forms of Unicode well. (For Qt, try using the
Perl
bindings in the kdebindings package).
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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