Re: [Evolution] right to left languages

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>]

I think it's slowly moving in the direction of usability in a RTL
context, but getting it to really work (esp. with bidirectional support
- numbers and so forth being rendered left-to-right in the middle of the
right-to-left data) is going to be a lot of work, and this hasn't been
enough of an issue to justify making it a high priority for our
developers.  Of course, patches to make it work would be quite welcome.

-Mark Gordon

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:35 -0800, G B wrote:
> I may be naive but it seems you stopped just an inch
> from making us RTL readers real happy -
> "just" add a button/option that inverts word order in
> all document lines (no promises made)...
>
> A second invert can just reload the e-mail; forget
> about selecting blocks or answering in RTL.
> Just seeing it displayed properly would be grand!
>
> I guess it ain't that simple...
> -Gill
>
> PS another way would be not to invert anything,
> use mirror-reflected fonts, and advise us to hold our
> own mirror against the screen :)
> Just don't send us off to m$ to read it!
>
> --- Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:10 -0800, G B wrote:
> > > Has anyone had luck with any of these?
> > >
> > > On my evo 1.4.5 (mandrake 9.1) the words
> > themselves
> > > are inverted properly, but each line is is still
> > > displayed from left to right (no big deal), and
> > word
> > > order is NOT inverted as it should be (MAJOR
> > > headache).
> > >
> > > So instead of the proper (right to left)
> > >            lkj ihgf edcba
> > > I see
> > > edcba ihgf lkj
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Gill
> >
> > I'm afraid you've pretty much described the current
> > state of things RTL.
> > You'll also notice some oddities if you select
> > blocks of text.
> >
> > -Mark Gordon
>
>
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Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>
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