From kde-devel  Fri Jun 28 20:51:27 2002
From: Arash Zeini <kde () farsikde ! com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:51:27 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: RTL and KDE vs. QT
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On Wednesday 26 June 2002 11:27, David Faure wrote:
> 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? ;-)

I will try this again. I have tried it but am not sure about the result. Your 
smily makes me believe it is good :)

> > 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.

Do KDE developers know this from a 'written' source? Is there any manual out 
there in this regard?

> > 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.

And this seems to be the correct way, AFAICS.

Greetings,
Arash
 
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