Re: bugs need info/confirmation

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <rahal at arabeyes dot org>]

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Salam,

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 19:09, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

[...]

> > In kspread:
> >   Hindi numerals won't be considered numbers. They won't add/subtract/..
> >
> > This is very serious and we need to whether a bug is filed somewhere
> > so we can all vote. What component is responsible of this? Fribidi?

[...]

> BTW: I'm not sure if this is an application(s) bug or something the
>      locale needs to be involved in.  In other words, I'm not sure
>      where this intercept and substitution is to happen - you might
>      want to keep that in mind when you bring up the subject with the
>      application authors (or someone in the know).

In recent QT versions there's a class (QLocale) that is supposed to display 
digits (Arabic or Hindi) following the locale and uses them in the 
'mathematical' way. I suppose that most (all?) KDE apps need to be compiled 
with recent QTs (and I guess they will need to be patched a little). But the 
needed tools are definitely there.

For apps made with something other than QT (GTK/Pango among others ?!), I 
don't know. But Behdad said that such functionality is not present and there 
is a serious development need (I guess the functionality won't be there for 
tomorrow...).

Salam,

- -- 
Youcef R. Rahal
Arabeyes.org
http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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