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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
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
Date sent: 07 Jul 1998 15:10:49 +0200
"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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