Re: Word Wrap, Line breaks, and Arabic in KDE3

[Lars Knoll <lars at trolltech dot com>]

Hi,

Could you send me (privately) some more detail on where things go wrong (maybe 
with a screenshot). The problems are most likely somewhere in Qt, and I would 
really like to get them fixed. I tried quite a bit of KDE3 with hebrew 
translations once and most things looked ok, even though I noticed some 
smaller problems here and there. Both languages should have similar problems.

One big issue is kate/kwrite, as the editor is unusable both with arabic and 
hebrew, but I din't find any time to look into the code. It seems to me the 
editor is doing lots of drawing optimisations that assume left to right text 
layout.

Cheers,
Lars

> Hi All ..
>   KDE 3 got released indeed .. and I can say that the Arab community is
> indeed happy for Arabic support in it .. there is few issues that I noticed
> in the Arabic interface I would like to ask about here :
>   dialogs, configuration windows and so are very wide, that is due to the
> fact that there is no line breaks in the dialog texts in the Arabic PO
> files, and to the fact that Arabic text does not get word wrap ..
>   I remember some time ago that there was an email here about the no need
> for line breaks '\n' or so as it will wrap automatically .. am I correct ?
> after it the Arabic PO files got tens of fuzzy strings related to removing
> line breaks from msgids .. Now it is shown that there is no word wrap for
> Arabic ..
>
> How can I help fix it ? who is working on the issues related to wordwraping
> ? I really want that fixed in the very soon release .. it is really
> annoying, and makes Arabic interface unusable in some cases ( such as Kmail
> configuration).
> Should I post it in bugs.kde.org ? ( I posted at least 4 reports for kde
> beta2, 2 of them got fixed)
>
> please help me on it ..