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Re: GDK/GTK 1.2 with hebrew support




On Thu, 27 May 1999, Dov Grobgeld wrote:

> If someone takes upon himself the headache of keeping an updated site
> with rpm's and tar files of the patched library., I'll write the code.
> Any volunteers?

Yeah, I don't mind provided that no one minds it being hosted in South
Africa [.za] :)  I might even be able to organise something in Israel
aswell.

> Note that such a solution is less than perfect. E.g. in irc you'll 
> have one big pain flipping the direction of the text widget the whole
> time if you are trying to speak in Hebrew and English at the same time.

Is this not just a matter of adding a right-shift-alt type thing and BiDi
handling the rest?

> Also, such a solution isn't enough to insert the appropriate header's
> and be able to quote appropriately for a mail agent.

Would still be a great start.  For *most* apps, I would think, it is all
that is required.  (Anyone's welcome to correct me if I'm wrong :>)

As a side note, most Gtk apps use gettext -- so if we have BiDi in Gtk, it
would be a simple matter to add hebrew to existing apps?  or not?

- Gaven

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