[haiku-development] Re: Right-to-Left text and BiDi

  • From: pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:04:35 +0200

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 04:26:17PM +0200, zalit@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I would like to know from Haiku developers if the the native GUI
> toolkit in Haiku supports:
> 
> 1) Right-to-Left languages
> 
> 2) Bidirectional text (that is, Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left
> strings on the *same* line)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Zaffer
> 
> P.S. In case these features are not supported, when can we hope to
> see them implemented in Haiku?

Hello,
Unfortunately this is still on our TODO list. The plan is to use ICU
layouting engine and integrate it in BView text drawing functions.

-- 
Adrien.

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