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

[Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire trace com tw>]

> 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.

BTW, can the GTK library support unicode string. I means double char
string. Looking at the doc, GTk uses the type gchar for character.
It could then be defined as unsigned int but looking futher in the
examples it seems this type is also use as type argument in event
function. Is it a problem.


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