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A question about a small "makaf"



Hi all,

This might not be news to people who are compiling KDE from CVS or the daily
snapshot's or use Bero's daily RPM's, but Lars from Trolltech has fixed the
numbers problem, so you can read Globes and other financial news more
normally, but there is one problem which I would like input from people who
either know the BiDi algoritm or are web designers...

This problem goes like this (and I use currently Outlook Express to type
this email for showing the problem). Read the following sentence:

הבורסה ירדה ב-3%

or in "hebrew english"

Haboorsa yarda b-3%

Now. According to lars, there isn't a specific paragraph (at least thats
what I understood from him) that says where the "makaf" should be, so Lars
has left it like this situation:

-3%הבורסה ירדה ב

or in "hebrew english"

Haboorsa yarda b-3%

>From my experience, opening word documents on Windows 95/98 and Windows NT -
the "makaf" was on different places, which left you to fix it manually. I
never tested it on Windows 2000.

According to lars - the way that MSIE shows the "makaf" is a bug and the
financial and other web sites uses this bug to show the numbers and "makaf"
correctly.

So, the big question is - how is it on the windows world? how web designers
are dealing with it? what Lars should do? ignore the spec and implement this
"bug"?

Thanks,
Hetz


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