Re: What about arabic?

From: Alessandro Baretta (alex@baretta.com)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 19:24:01 EDT

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    Martin Sevior wrote:
    >>I see that arabic is explicitly supported. However, I do not
    >>seem to be able to get the right-to-left feature to work
    >>properly: while I type letters appear in a right-to-left
    >>order, but they get reversed to a traditional left-to-right
    >>order every time I type a space or a return. Neither can I
    >>find arabic fonts. Can anyone help me?

    > Are you using the "bidi" builkd of abiword? You need that
    to get
    > bi-directional text to work.
    >
    > Cheers
    >
    > Martin

    Yes I am. I am using both a 1.0.0 (Linux/Mandrake) and a
    1.0.1 version (Win98). When I set the right-to-left checkbox
    and begin typing, words correctly appear reversed, but after
    typing return or space they are reversed back to the a
    left-to-right character ordering . That is to say, if I type
    the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
    I'll see the following succession of images on my screen.
    > ehT
    > The kciuq
    > The quick nworb
    > The quick brown xof
    > The quick brown fox spmuj
    > The quick brown fox jumps revo
    > The quick brown fox jumps over eht
    > The quick brown fox jumps over the yzal
    > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy god

    And, when I type return at the end of the sentence, I get
    > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

    For this reason I suspect that the right-to-left feature is
    deeply buggy. Or, if it is not buggy, I have greatly
    misinterpreted its functioning and need explanations.

    Can anyone clarify this? Does anyone have some real
    experience on Abiword used with real right-to-left languages?

    Alex

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