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Re: Gtk Hebrew text widget!



Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
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I've written some hebrew (and english and digits) bidi-code,
maybe you can use that
(tell me if so)

regards
erez