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Re: Gtk Hebrew text widget!
Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" <frodo@sharat.co.il> wrote:
> Just a moment... What use it gives with hebrew text? Any english word in
> it would spoil all the thing from the basement. I not even say a word
> about numbers, dates and things like "1 ve-3,4,5"... Or it is not
> reflecting but implementing BiDi logical rendering algorithm? Then I'd
> like to see it very much.
No, the widget does currently not support any BiDi algorithms. That
makes it unsuitable for quite a large number of tasks. On the other
hand, I believe that shooting for the stars is not always the best
approach. There are quite a lot of uses when it is enough to type in
Hebrew only with numbers and occational English words being "pushed
in".
Perhaps, I'll start looking at BiDi too, in which case I'll certainly
use your Hebrew.pm as a reference implementation! But as has already
been said by Eli Marmor, that is a much more difficult problem.
I still think it would be possible to create a very simple word
processor for kids based on this widget. As well as an irc client,
a mail agent, a message board agent, etc...
Dov