[openbeos] Re: StyledEdit and character set encodings
- From: "shatty" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 14:27:21 -0800
Hi Philipp,
Thanks for your comments. Actually we have been
talking specifically about using different encodings
in this thread. in this case we are referring to
ISO-8859-8. (international standard encoding with
Hebrew support.)
Also it seems my question about shifting characters
wasn't very clear. I just wanted to know if after
you had typed a character if that character could
move after you typed another one. In typical LTR
english a character is fixed after you type it. My
understanding is that if you use a hebrew input method
in a left-aligned context all the characters you have
typed on a line would move if you typed a new one.
This is similar to the effect you would get if you
type english in a right-aligned context. I just
wanted to make sure that no moving of characters
should occur in a normal right-aligned context. (for
hebrew)
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Philipp Reichmuth <mailinglistenprozessor@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 23:01:33 +0100
I think we're using Unicode, so it makes little sense to speak of
"Hebrew encoding", and there is virtually no way to determine the
language a text is written in with 100% accuracy. Any Hebrew
characters make (Hebrew|Yiddish) text, any Latin characters make
(Latin|French|Dutch|German|...) text. Mixed paragraphs are a problem,
that's what the Unicode bidirectional algorithm is for.
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