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Gtk Hebrew text widget!
Yes! I managed to do it. Last night I did a long time hacking for the
first time in a very long period of time. My goal was to make the same
thing to the Gtk text widget as I did to the Turbo Editor Toolbox with
my editor HED a long time ago; to insert "reflection" code that
reflects the text in the x-direction. And I got it working! Just press
F10 and the text is swapped around, just like in HED.
I still have to remap cursor movement keys, get selections to work,
and make mapping of the keyboard to Hebrew in reverse mode, but this
is quite easy.
I hope to upload a version of it to my site in a few days for the
hackers among you to play with.
Afterwards it shouldn't be difficult to create a newbie Hebrew editor
(not word processor...) and perhaps patch Balsa (the gnome mail
tool) to use this widget instead of GtkText and make it Hebrew RFC
complient.
Of course, making Gtk text widget bidi complient would be much more
interesting...
Dov