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Re: Hebrew support for kde




On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Erez Doron wrote:

| well, making kde support hebrew is more complicated
| than supporting other languages
| 
| that is because hebrew is written right to left.
| 
| I've implemented some functions ( in C ) which receives
| a string holding the characters typed, and returns a string of
| how it should be seen on the screen. ( this shold be used only for
| hebrew
| fonts, i.e. iso8895-8 )
| 
| how can i embed this to kde, so i can edit in hebrew and so on ?
| is it in the kde layer ? QT layer ? Xt layer ?

I was looking into it few weeks ago. I am afraid it is in Qt, at least for
the basic widgets. Implementing it should involve subclassing most of the
widgets dealing with text input. Maybe you should ask Trolls if they
intend to solve it someday (I doubt that - too few people are interested
in using right-to-left). This should really be solved at the Qt level, not
by subclassing it, since you would have to patch all the applications for
hebrew use everytime the application source is changed. I think that is
what M$ is doing it to enable Hebrew/Arabic support in Win95. The problem
is that thay can hold the release of the software until this is done for
every new version. This is hardly the way free software development works.

This said, I am more than willing to help you do it.

kreso

| 
| btw:
| 1. if someone wants to see the code, tell me via email
| 2. this could be easily modified to and right-2-left language.
| 
| regards
| Erez.
|