On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:06:47PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Andr� Poenitz wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:53:47AM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>Georg Baum wrote: > >>>I have no idea why, and I don't have any idea why we need the \rtl > >>>flag in lyxrc. Why is RTL display not derived from the language? > >>Hum, I've done some thinking about that... Instead of the language, > >>maybe we can base the RTL display upon the unicode codepoints and set > >>the language automatically as well if we detect hebrew or arabic? > > > >I doubt this will work with numbers and punctuation. > > We might have to adjust punctuation and number treatment, indeed but > this is exactly what Qt does when you pass it a whole string mixing > arabic and english. As a matter of fact, this is also what Fribidi does. > > I guess the solution to our RTL problem is just to completely delete our > painting support code and rely on Qt to do right thing. This just mean > that we send complete string instead of single word.
Sounds like a good solution if it works. Andre'
