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

[Moshe Vainer <moshev easybase com>]

Steve Hosgood wrote:

> Bi-Di?
> Hah! Childs play :-)
>

Well, I wish it was, but it isn't :),

> When I was a lad, we had to write Boustrophedon(*) support in machine code!
>

I've done it with several apps (i mean Bidi not Boustrophedon(*):)

> Though I mention it jokingly, such support would probably be very useful to
> a small number of researchers. More importantly, (and I'm surprised it
> doesn't get mentioned more often) is top to bottom support for various
> Asian languages.
>

For me, BiDi support is important enough, u c, I live in Israel, andhave to keep a
windows partition exclusively for keeping a M$Worse to
write hebrew docs, (there are still places where you have to use other
languages than english from time to time :-))


> I once read an interesting paper (by Xerox in about 1980?) on the subject of
> supporting multiple character-sets and mixed directionality in a word-
> processor. They'd researched it pretty well - indeed I think Unicode was
> partly inspired by their work. Trouble is, I've lost the paper.
>
>

I've got a good link on BiDizing apps, it sits on MicroDevils site -

http://microsoft.com/globaldev/mideast/meissues.htm

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>
> (*) Boustrophedon: like the motion of an Ox ploughing a field, i.e right to
> left on one line, left to right on the line below etc etc. It would be
> needed if you wanted to display ancient cuneoform texts (and maybe others?).
>
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