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Re: GDK/GTK 1.2 with hebrew support
Dov Grobgeld wrote:
>
> I congratulate you on your efforts Idan, and I would be very
> interested to see what you have come up with. I'm sure there are
> others than me as well so if you could put it in a public place it
> would be great. I'm also curious why you chose to write your own
> BiDi library instead of using my FriBidi library?
>
> It would be very good if we could get some cooperation going in order
> to speed up the process of turning as much software as possible
> Hebrew aware.
>
> What do you think? Would a lecture about the issues involved help
> getting people engaged and actually start coding instead of just
> talking? :-)
>
> Dov
Last time when I contacted Dov about his work on hebrew GTK+ widgets,
he had told me that it's no use to do them now,
since in the next unstable branch of GTK+ (1.3) text widgets will be
completely rewritten with bidi support, so whatever patch you send now
will be ignored...
doesn't it apply now too?
but - if fribidi works good enough (i never tried it myself),
you should send it and let it be used with the new text/entry widgets.
also you should send it to the guy making a GPLed wordprocessor,
or other projects that are seeking hebrew support.
Another point,
a very important one, i think, is mozilla.
I would like to have correct unicode bidi under mozilla,
so the endless reign of terror of msie in israel will end.
many important sites are using the msie "logical" hebrew bidi,
and i think it's the reason MSIE is very popular in israel.
if mozilla will support full unicode bidi in html,
i'm sure more people will use it in israel.
The bidi-ized mozilla isn't just widgets (though hopefully gtk wil
support hebrew when mozilla will be ready for the public), it's html and
forms and most important email. if it were only widgets, users of
netscape on windows would be able to see msie-hebrew sites, and they
can't.
I would do it myself but my poor knowledge of BiDi and experience with
C++ makes it rather impossible for me to do it,
so hopefully one of you guys will do it.
(btw, this may make eli's hnetscape obsolete, assuming it will be out
before mozilla)
Cheers,
Yoni.
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