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

[Christoph Cullmann <cullmann at babylon2k dot de>]

On Saturday 06 April 2002 19:17, Lars Knoll wrote:
> 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.
As where are just on the way to change the whole draw behaviour for folding, 
someone whit knowledge of bidi could jump in and help out to implement it now 
;) would be the a real good chance, as the dynamic word wrap could than be 
implemented with bidi in mind too.

>
> 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 ..
> >
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