Re: Bidi: contextual ordering of text

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Semion Chichelnitsky wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Can somebody help me and explain, how direction of the text in such
> widgets, like label, text entry or view, can be defined strongly in
> accordance with the current "widget direction"? Auto direction of the text
> is great, but in some cases strong LTR or RTL orientation is more
> preferable, than contextual. I see, that auto_dir flag in pango-layout can
> be turned off, and base direction from the pango-context is used in this
> case. But how I can, for example, prevent text entry from changing its base
> direction or how I can create new label with the text, which have needed
> type of text ordering?

I'm not sure what you really want to do here, doesn't prepending
an LRM or RLM do it?

> I found in archive some mails, where this problem is discussed, but I don't
> see, that it is solved. Is it correct? Is it planned to be solved?

No, nothing is planned.  I still don't quite understand what
people want.


> Thanks in advance,
> Semion

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