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Re: Bidi support for Linux
- To: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>
- Subject: Re: Bidi support for Linux
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 19:28:07 +0300 (IDT)
- cc: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>, Oded Arbel <odeda-linux-il(at-nospam)betalfa.org.il>, Linux-IL Mailing list <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: <20010509191050.A19992@pollux.galanet.net>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:42:05PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > And I don't think, by the way, that Windows gives any special meaning to
> > Ctrl-Shift-F (replace F by whatever character) - if I remember correctly
> > it just does the normal switch-to-Hebrew thing, and doesn't pass this
> > sequence to the application. So if I'm right, not even Windows does that
> > strange overloading of Ctrl-Shift that you propose. But please correct me if
> > I'm wrong here.
>
> True. On Windows, the switch occurs as soon as you press the Ctrl-Shift
> combo, not when you depress it. Adopting Ctrl-Shift would indeed
> stop us from using it for anything else inside the relevant application.
>
> But then again, it's seems as much friendlier combination than any
> switching combo made out of distinct keys you might choose. You can
> simply feel one represents left while the other represents right.
> Having a "toggling" key would mean a decrease in usability.
Is that so intuitive? What if you have english+russian+hebrew layouts?
will this toggling seem intuitive then?
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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