Re: Bidi: contextual ordering of text

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Semion Chichelnitsky wrote:

> Do you mean, that LRM/RLM should be added to the text buffer? If no, can
> you,please, explain, what do you mean?

Yes, that was what I meant.  That should work for labels at
least.

>    If yes, you understand, that using
> bidi markers needs additional logic in GTK application. It is good for some
> specific cases, but not always. What I really want here is simple API (in
> the widget level), which allows to switch from contextual (default)
> ordering to the "strong" ordering, that corresponds to current widget
> direction.

So, all you are asking is a a GtkWidget wrapper around
pango_layout_set_auto_dir?  If yes, please file it in bugzilla.



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