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Re: Bidi support for Linux



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.

-- 
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov

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