Unicode / bidirectional support for GTK/GNOME

[Tal Davidson <tald md2 huji ac il>]

Hi!

Can anyone shed light on whether GTK / GNOME supports (or plans to
support...) Unicode characters and
bidirectional writing (needed for languages written from right to left
such as Hebrew, Arabic, etc...) ?

I am very much interested in helping make GTK / GNOME aware of
bidirectional
languages from its base, so that it appeals to countries that use those
languages. As an example, in Israel, Windows 95/NT have a very wide and
strong support of bidirectinal writing for hebrew/english, making it much
more apealing for most israeli's to use than Linux as a standard desktop,
regardless of any other technical merit linux has...

If anyone is working on this, or simply has a firm understanding of
GTK / GNOME's architecture, I would very much appreciate recieving as
much info as possible on the subject, together with pointers on what needs
to be done, and where to start from.

Thanks!

Tal Davidson, Israel
tald@md2.huji.ac.il