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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: RTL and KDE vs. QT
From:       Arash Zeini <kde () farsikde ! com>
Date:       2002-06-29 10:24:47
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On Friday 28 June 2002 21:07, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Friday 28 June 2002 06:21 pm, Arash Zeini wrote:
> > > > 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?
>
> As far as konsole is concerned I am absolutely clueless about how things
> should behave in the face of BIDI, it's not so much the BIDI aspect itself
> as well as the interaction between BIDI, shell and terminal.
>
> Cheers,
> Waldo

Are you familiar with "mlterm"? In my opinion that is a good concept to 
follow up. There are some other examples available for xterm too. Important 
is that you can use commands like cat and less on the command line and 
read/write files for example in Farsi. 
Emacs ran from within mlterm supports Farsi quite well.

An important issue on the command line (i.e. for konsole) is the support for 
a Farsi keyboard. To open files, saved with a Farsi name the user needs to be 
able to type Farsi on the prompt. Hence the ability to change console 
keyboard layouts is essential. This should probably be integrated in KDE: 
When you change the keyboard layout, it should automatically change it for 
the Konsole too. With a group change option you should then be able to change 
between different layouts. At the other hand an option to have the Konsole 
keyboard not changed would be handy for people that don't want to do so. 

I think this could be the direction here.
I am sure Behdad (CCed) will be able to say more here.

Thanks,
Arash
 
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