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Re: pango
- To: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>
- Subject: Re: pango
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:34:59 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Oren Held <mlist(at-nospam)opinionz.cjb.net>, Linux-IL Mailing List <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- In-Reply-To: <20010211003738.A16797@pollux.galanet.net>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 09:52:46PM +0200, Oren Held wrote:
> > The future of the hebrew implementation under linux (or more correct- on
> > x), looks good.. I guess that QT3 will be pretty similar.
>
> I've seen the same in the early GTK+ 1.3 snapshots about half a year
> ago. Also, Mozilla provides the same functionality. The BiDi builds
> reverse Hebrew too.
>
> Also, I've seen one of the latest Qt 3.0 snapshots. They added
> LOCALE-independent input (no need to set LC_CTYPE etc.) so you can just
> switch the map and keep typing.
That's good news!
> Unfortunatelly, it doesn't handle BiDi
> editing quite well yet
> (http://www.galanet.net/~future/qt-bidi-broken.png).
Hopefully this will be fixed...
>
> And yes, the Qt widgets handle multiple-languages-in-one-widget since
> Qt 2, since Qt 2 stores text in Unicode internally. Try cut-n-pasting
> from GTK+ 1.3 or Mozilla. You can combine Russian, Hebrew (no BiDi in
> Qt 2) and English.
How exactly do you cut-n-paste? isn't reading from the X buffer to QT2's
widget involve the use of the same problematic interface that causes
problems with keyboard input?
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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