[openbeos] Re: StyledEdit and bi-di text

>However, from what I can tell drawing strings in a 
>particular direction is a property of the font that 
>you are using and can not be set arbitrarily.  What 
>this means for bidi text in general I don't know but 
>unless it's automagically supported when you change 
>the font to a hebrew font it won't be even marginally 
>supported until R2.  If it is automagically supported 
>then perhaps maintaining the text alignment will be 
>enough to make stylededit usable, if only for reading.
>I understand there are still some input method issues 
>and those will not be addressed until someone donates 
>us a hebrew input method. :-)
>
>Andrew
Um, actually you *will* be able to set the direction of the text under R1, at 
least to some degree. It's one of those features that is so easy to build 
into the code that it doesn't make sense *not* to do it. The way R5 does it, 
it's literally just a matter of changing the indexing of a loop.

--DarkWyrm

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