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

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

I insist on my opinion that it's a bug with your version of Gtk+.
Dov Grobgeld solved this bug in Gtk+ 2.4.

behdad


On Sat, 22 May 2004, Munzir Taha wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 May 2004 03:50 pm, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 May 2004, Munzir Taha wrote:
> > > Xchat 2 is gtk+2 I think.
> > >
> > > I am using xchat xchat 2.0.7 and
> > > # ldd /usr/bin/xchat
> > >         libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x40029000)
> > >
> > > Isn't this a proof?
> >
> > So simply grab the latest Gtk+ (Gtk+-2.4) and it works like a
> > charm.
>
> If it's a GTk+ bug then this bug should be available in all GTK+ apps. This
> bug (Typing English in xchat appears RTL when LANGUAGE=ar) is only available
> in xchat. Up to now, Ahmed khalifa's explanation of the paragraph level tends
> to be the most convincing. xchat need to calculate the paragraph level
> depending upon the input text not upon the env variables.
>
> karouri, weak characters should have nothing to do with this bug because if
> the paragraph level is set to 0 the weak characters should appear properly,
> right?
>
> After reading part of the BiDi algorithm, I need some answers to understand
> BiDi and Unicode better which will help in filing bugs later.
>
> - Why do we have AL and R? what's the difference between right-to-left in
> Aabic and Hebrew?
>
> - Why do we have characters such as Arabic full stop which is different than
> an English fullstop?
>
> - I think the thread which spoke about a poor BiDi implementation ends in the
> conclusion it's not BiDi fault but implementation fault, if any, right?
> Karouri, do you think typing C++ in an Arabic contex which prints ++C is a
> bug? I personally thinks it's not but may be I didn't understood weak
> characters well, or you want a plug sign to be classified as a strong
> character which will cause more problems AFAIK.
>
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