Re: commit: further bidi fixes

From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 04:48:41 EST

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    > > I am working on the problems with bidi processing of
    > > the GUI
    > > strings.
    >
    > 2) Is this safe to do/assume, considering that GTK2
    > will do this for us on Unix, and QNX might do this as
    > well, considering that everything it consumes are
    > UTF-8 strings?
    > 2.a) Might it be better/possible to follow the
    > suggestions laid down in bugs 1625/3655 and others,
    > and use the MS Unicode DLL, and pass in all strings as
    > UCS-2 to the functions? Will that DLL do this work for
    > us?

    I have described the whole approach in bug 4100, but in essence if
    the OS will do the bidi processing for us, we let it do it.

    Tomas

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