Re: Fwd: [ xchat-Bugs-956606 ] LANGUAGE=ar xchat bug

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Munzir Taha wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 May 2004 01:14 pm, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > Who's doing bidi in xchat?
>
> Do you mean it's not a BiDi issue or what? Behdad please feel free to comment
> or correct any thing in the report, if any.

No.  I mean, which bidi code is it?  AFAIK xchat is a gtk-1
application, and gtk-1 does not support bidi.  It will have the
best implemented bidi framework as soon as it's ported to gtk-2.
So, as before:  xchat should not handle bidi itself.  bidi is
something up to the toolkit.

behdad





> > On Wed, 19 May 2004, Munzir Taha wrote:
> > > To the experts in BiDi and GTK+,
>
> Read as Behdad, karouri, Ahmed Khalifa, Nadim, ...
>
> > > please help by suggestions on this bug.
> > > It seems to be very simple but you decide.
> > >
> > > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> > >
> > > Subject: [ xchat-Bugs-956606 ] LANGUAGE=ar xchat bug
> > > Date: Wednesday 19 May 2004 09:37 am
> > > From: "SourceForge.net" <noreply at sourceforge dot net>
> > > To: noreply at sourceforge dot net
> > >
> > > Bugs item #956606, was opened at 2004-05-19 09:51
> > > Message generated for change (Comment added) made by zed
> > > You can respond by visiting:
> > > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100239&aid=956606&group
> > >_id= 239
> > >
> > > Category: None
> > > Group: None
> > > Status: Open
> > > Resolution: None
> > > Priority: 5
> > > Submitted By: Munzir Taha (munzirtaha)
> > > Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
> > > Summary: LANGUAGE=ar xchat bug
> > >
> > > Initial Comment:
> > > If the LANGUAGE variable is set to ar (Arabic), the direction
> > > of the English text typed would be left to right (LTR) which
> > > would cause readability issues and display problems e.g.
> > > typing:
> > >
> > > /help will aappear as help/
> > > hi ;) will appear as (; hi
> > > /join # will appear as # join/
> > >
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > >Comment By: Peter Zelezny. (zed)
> > >
> > > Date: 2004-05-19 13:37
> > >
> > > Message:
> > > Logged In: YES
> > > user_id=5012
> > >
> > > What do you propose I change though?
> > > I'd need some help with this (or a patch).
> > >
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > You can respond by visiting:
> > > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100239&aid=956606&group
> > >_id= 239
> > >
>
>

--behdad
  behdad.org