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Another hebrew support snippet.
Hello,
Not to be left behind, I also patched a standard library to support
hebrew.
I changed only the function XDrawText in libX11.so, to reverse the
direction of hebrew text before drawing it.
The result is that I can view sites the use "logical hebrew" using
netscape on my Linux machine.
This is certainly not a perfect solution long lines are split and
shown bottom to top, instead of top to bottom, and my reversing
function is probably faulty, but it is simple and it works for me with
the sites I tried.
It might help other programs (irc), but I did not try that.
The patch (with explanations) is available at
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~zivav/hebrew
Matan Ziv-Av. zivav@cs.bgu.ac.il