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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: BiDi RTL/LTR
From:       Lars Knoll <knoll () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-12-05 14:01:20
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Hi Hetz,

On Wednesday 05 December 2001 13:50, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote:
> Hi Lars, people...
>
> I finally sat down and checked deeply the Windows behavior when pressing
> CTRL RIGHT-SHIFT that causes the text to appear right-to-left (not "push"
> mode). I have checked it with Windows Hebrew and Windows Arabic editions
> (heh, those MSDN cd's could be useful sometimes)..
>
> As it now with QT 3.0 (qt-copy from cvs), pressing CTRL RIGHT SHIFT when I
> enable hebrew/english (or arabic/english) keyboard mapping - the same line
> that the cursor at it - will take this line only and justify it to the
> right, and that behavior is wrong. It should take the WHOLE text and
> justify it to the right side.

Actually it does not do right justification, it changes the main 
directionality of the paragraph from LTR to RTL. So a string as "english 
ARABIC" (logically ordered) would appear as
LTR: "english CIBARA" OR
RTL: "CIBARA english"

So what Qt currently does is change the directionality of one _paragraph_. If 
you have single line text, it'll probably only change that one line, but 
that's more a mistake in the way the text is read into the editor.

Lars
 
>
> In Windows's WordPad (as an example of rich text editor), pressing CTRL
> RIGHT SHIFT on a line takes the line that the cursor is in and that line
> alone is justified to the right side, but it's actually just replacing the
> clicking on the "right justify" button on the icons bar..
>
> So, could the current behavior of QT modified to what I specified above
> please? this would help to keep the standards in BiDi accross Linux and
> Windows.
>
> Thanks,
 
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