[haiku-development] Re: Right-to-Left text and BiDi
- From: hey68 you <hey68you@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:22:17 +0300
FYI:
You can also create bi-directional html documents with Haiku using
Seamonkey (chosing the "Composer" tool). (No need to have Qt installed!)
Please give it a try and post any comments here.
http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/internet-network/web-browsers/sea-monkey-experimental-build-1115pre
Regards,
hey68you
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:35 PM, <zalit@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2012-07-29 19:27, X512 wrote:
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>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:08:54 +0200, zalit@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>>> Hhm. The real test would be to copy and paste some Arabic text in the
>>> middle of a line which already contains English text, and see how it
>>> comes out. If you do that (I can't because I don't have Haiku
>>> installed), please post a screenshot showing that. It would be very
>>> useful. Thanks
>>>
>> http://dev.haiku-os.org/**attachment/ticket/6950/arabic.**png<http://dev.haiku-os.org/attachment/ticket/6950/arabic.png>
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>> PS: Is selection OK? I saw the same on Windows.
>>
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> The Arabic text in sorrounded by the English text is ok.
> The selection is only partial, as you can see from the fact that only part
> of the Arabic text is highlighted. But I guess that it simply depends on
> the fact that you have not fully selected it with your cursor. Only I can
> see that the text selection in Arabic does not follow the same direction of
> the keyboard arrow keys, but this is not much of a problem, and does not
> impair functionality (anyway, this is the way it is found in most
> implementation of Arabic rendering).
>
> So, in conclusion, I would say that bidirectionality support, via Qt, is
> fine!!
> Good news indeed. Thanks for the cooperation.
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