Re: [gtk-list] Re: Bi-Di support

[Moshe Vainer <moshev easybase com>]

Thanks tom, i'll go through the archives,
I've hebrewtized :) apps before, but i have little to none experience in Xwin
programming..
BTW: Anybodyis working on this or just talks?

Tom Tromey wrote:

> Moshe> Hi, I am very interested in seeing GTK/Gnome support Hebrew and
> Moshe> other Bi-directional languages,... any thoughts about it?
>
> Moshe> If i want to contribute to it, where should i start?
>
> This has been discussed before on the list.  The below is all IMHO --
> nothing I say carries any weight with anybody.
>
> The first (well, easiest) thing to do is to make it so an application
> can run properly in a right-to-left locale.  This basically means
> making it possible to mirror the layout of widgets (some, but not all
> -- very important) about the vertical axis when running r-to-l.  The
> previous discussion of this has a lot more details about what needs to
> be done and why; check the archives.
>
> Adding full bidi support to the text widget is much harder.
>
> Tom
>
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