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

[Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk>]

 --- Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa> wrote:
> > > To the experts in BiDi and GTK+, 
> 
> Read as Behdad, karouri, Ahmed Khalifa, Nadim, ...
> 

Well, I am not sure if I qualify as expert. In fact I have not studied the BiDi
algorithm yet. I probably have to, now.

> > > 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/
> > >

I would vote for this type of bugs as 'bug of the year'. Invariably, there will
be a weak character somewhere (read that as end of the line) and somebody will
talk about paragraph level (sorry, I don't mean you specifically, Ahmad). Then
the result is: the BiDi implementation/BiDi algorithm/software using
implementation is the culprit.

I am really beginning to get angry at this. Which is a good sign.

Salam,
Muhammad Alkarouri


	
	
		
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