Subject: Re: Yiddish in Abi?
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 10:50:40 CDT
Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>
> At 11:10 PM -0400 6/27/01, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> >I just found http://www.cs.engr.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/unix.html which
> >mentions various ways to process Yiddish text. Does Yiddish work in AbiWord?
> >Can someone update the author of this webpage?
> >
> It probably works on Unix, but last I tried it, there were
> still issues with the BiDi support on Windows. I need to find some
> time (hah!) to look at it again...Or maybe Andrew (our resident I18n
> guru) could try it?
Bidi isn't really ready for prime time on Windows. Windows uses all
kinds of funky OpenType magic to render nice Arabic script but AbiWord
is not doing all it can with font metrics. We assume characters are
certain widths etc. There are some strange results. Most noticeable
(for me) is when selecting text. The block shown as selected is
usually greater than that portion of text is rendered. The unselected
portion is rendered to the right of the selected block. The same
occurs for Thai and Idic scripts. And I don't think that's all ):
Best is if you give it a work out and submit detailed bug reports
for each specific problem you see. We need more bidi fluent
developers who know how to attack these issues.
Andrew Dunbar.
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