Re: BiDi Support


Subject: Re: BiDi Support
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Dec 17 2000 - 05:57:24 CST


On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Sam TH wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:07:21PM -0000, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> >
> > I have managed to salvage most of the work I have done on this
> > before 0.7.9. I have got implemented the BiDi algorithm itself, split
> > cursor and started some work on the user interface. Essentially, it
> > is now possible to display bidirectional text correctly as well as to
> > save and load it; the decision about direction is based on the
> > Unicode values of individual characters; at the moment this is only
> > simulated, so that a-z is treated ltr, A-Z rtl and ' ', tab and 0-9 as
> > directionally neutral. If anyone wants to have a look, the the patch
> > is at http://www.frydrych.net/abi/bidi_patch_2000-12-16-21.14.08.gz
> >

HI Thomas,
          Just email the list the gzipped patch. It no big deal for
attachments < 20 K.

Cheers

Martin



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