Re: Automatic paragraph direction and BiDirection layouts in Gtk+

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 dov imagic weizmann ac il wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:13:47PM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
> This doesn't happen to me... It seems like your problem is that
> gtk+ doesn't recognize your keyboard layout as a RTL layout. For
> neutral lines, the bidi'ness of the current layout is what
> determines the base direction of the cursor line. I admit I am
> no familiar with how gtk determines the that. I think it just greps
> it for words like "Hebrew" or "Arabic", but I am not sure.
>
> Hopefully this will get you started in tracing down the problem.

Thanks a lot.  Seems like this bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116626

I think the approach should be changed completely.

BTW, I cannot get a right-to-left (menus, etc..) gedit under
fa_IR or he_IL locale anymore!

> > > As for the rest of the comment, I will reread it more properly
> > > when I am less tired. What is clear from comments that I got
> > > already, is that there must be a way of turning off the
> > > automatic BiDi direction.
> >
> >
> > Well, unfortunately it seems that the rest holds a taste of
> > 4AM-effect in it too.
> >
> > How about setting up an IRC meeting to discuss this bug and
> > related things?  I propose Friday March 4th, 10PM UTC.  Dov,
> > Owen, Roozbeh, if it's fine with you, we can go and announce it
> > on ivrix, persiancomputing, and arabeyes lists too.  The room,
> > #unicode irc gnome org?   Quicker the response, more chances we
> > can set it up.
>
> Sorry, I can't make it then. I will be quite busy in the next
> couple of days I am afraid. But feel free to do it without me,
> or wait until after next sunday.

We wait :).

behdad


> Dov