From kde-devel  Wed Jun 26 11:27:23 2002
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:27:23 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: RTL and KDE vs. QT
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On Wednesday 26 June 2002 17:46, Arash Zeini wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> After testing different applications with Farsi, we have found that the level 
> of support for RTL and BiDi differs from appplication to application. 
> 
> KEdit, KBabel and KMail have it implemented best.
Did you try KWord? ;-)

> It is almost not working in Kate.
> Is there any specific guideline or recommendation on how to implement and 
> support BiDi and RTL in KDE applications? Is the problem solved in Qt or KDE 
> level?
Mostly Qt. But KDE apps which implement their own text layout stuff need
to reimplement/reuse Qt's mechanism.

> Having a recommendation (a HOWTO?) on how to BiDi enable KDE (and Qt) 
> applications would help very much to unify the approach. 

For KWord I based everything on Qt's approach.

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