On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:27:40PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > ביום ראשון 30 נובמבר 2003, 11:45, נכתב על ידי Tzafrir Cohen: > > A second approach claims that the software should detect the user's > > input and if the user in in right-to-left mode translate the parens > > reversed. Currently this is only implemented by QT (>= 3.1). > Horribly. In Qt 3.1 if you type a hebrew paragraph and then an open paren and > then try to type a latin char, the paren chracter changes direction. this is > very confusing and anoying. Qt 3.2 fortunatly does a much better job.
Does QT 3.2 actively do anything if you have XFree 4.3? > > IIUC, X currently (4.3) generates 'open paren' and 'close paren' and its up to > the toolkit to generate the correct glyph according to the paragraph > direction. this is ok until you need to store text and render stored text, > where the characters are 'right paren' and 'left paren'. Small correction: X has always generated "open paren" and "close paren" chars. This is the meaning of those chars (though the X windows name does not reflect it. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
