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Re: Right-to-Left Languages



There was a discussion about hebrew support some time ago.
Here is where Qt/Kde stands (this discusses Qt 2.0, the next version 
of Qt to be released) (in addition to this they'll also add r-to-l 
menu support etc...):


-Yannai

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Subject:        Re: Right-to-Left Languages
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"Yannai A. Gonczarowski" <yannaigo@leyada.jlm.k12.il>
<SNIP>
> Are you planning on adding right-to-left support for text 
> widgets (widgets to which the user types text)?

Yes.


> If so, will these widgets also support multidirectional writing? 
> (At first, the user enters an english word, which is written left-
> to-right, afterwards he or she enters a word built from characters 
> of a right-to-left language so that word is written right-to-left, 
> etc...)?

Yes, according to the unicode 2.0 bidi algorithm.

--Arnt

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