Re: Problem with viewing code in Gedit

[fr33domlover <fr33domlover mailoo org>]

I forgot to mention, I think solutions are:

1. Perfect solution is to have a monospace font for Hebrew
2. Workaround is to use English-locale Text View if the user chooses, or
if the extension of the file denotes a source code file

On ש', 2013-09-28 at 20:17 +0300, fr33domlover wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I write code in Gedit. I watch or edit C/C++ code nearly every day, and
> I recently I worked with files in which indentation is done using
> spaces. So far I've been using tabs because they solve a serious
> indentation problem which makes nontrivial C/C++ code very hard to read,
> and it probably applies to any code.
>
> The problem is that I use a non-English locale, and lines containing
> only { and } and considered local language lines, since they don't
> contain any English letters. The space width is different, so the
> { and } don't appear in the right position.
>
> I didn't touch any settings, just install a distro (tried Debian and
> Fedora, both with Gnome 3) and opened a file with Gedit.
>
> This file demonstrates the problem. It's a PDF but it looks just like
> what I see in Gedit (could be an screenshot image if it fit the screen):
>
> https://gitorious.org/peer-review/peer-review/source/65c61f49714de01e717a53cb649ea2b8ba33ba6a:bug.pdf
>
> Is there any way to make the system use the same space width in both
> languages? Or consider the whole document as English, even lines
> containing only { and }?
>
> This also applies to characters, e.g. these lines:
>
> ////////////////
> ////////////////x
>
> Have a *huge* length difference. The second one is more than twice as
> long as the first, because the English / is wider than the Hebrew /. I
> didn't change any settings, just use the default font used by Gedit.
>
>
> Thanks!
> fr33domlover
>
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