On 13/01/14 16:39, Fraser Gordon wrote:
Hi Phil,
We do intend to have RTL support in the 7.x cycle. What is most likely to happen is that
we'll initially introduce a simplified mode where a field is exclusively right-to-left or
left-to-right and mixing isn't really supported. (Individual words in a mixed setting
should render in the right order but e.g. English text in a Hebrew field will "this
like render")
Full bidirectional support is the eventual goal but may take some time to
implement and test properly as it requires extensive changes to the way fields
currently lay-out and render their contents. Once this happens, RTL and LTR
text can be mixed freely in a field and it should just do the right thing.
By "right thing", I mean that it will detect when a section of RTL or LTR text
is embedded in an LTR or RTL field and ensure words are placed in the correct order. The
Unicode RTL control characters will be obeyed for overriding the defaults where necessary.
The really "fun" part to get right is cursor positioning in mixed-direction
fields; imagine you have an LTR field with:
<latin> <arabic> |
where | is the cursor position - if you type in some more arabic text, it
should actually be inserted immediately after the latin (to the left of the
existing arabic) rather than at the cursor position on the right. And how
should the cursor move as you navigate the field with the arrow keys?
So the short answer is "yes, but…" ;) Basic RTL functionality should happen in
7.0 or 7.x; full BiDi support is complex enough that it will take longer and I can't say
for certain when it will appear.
Regards,
Fraser
P.S (for Richmond):
Surely the strangest character in all of Unicode is the emoji U+1F4A9 "PILE OF
POO"
"numToChar(0xD83D) & numToChar(0xDCA9)"
Ha, Ha, Ha; is this a leg-pull? Certainly I couldn't find anything
about that here: http://www.unicode.org/charts/
even though it would be "all rather lovely" were there such a character.
Richmond.
On 13 Jan 2014, at 13:28, Phil Davis <rev...@pdslabs.net> wrote:
Regarding 7.0 and Unicode... Is it possible that we'll see support for RTL text
in 7.0? Or maybe 7.x?
Thanks -
Phil Davis
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