From kde-devel  Sat Jun 29 10:26:51 2002
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 10:26:51 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: RTL and KDE vs. QT
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On Saturday 29 June 2002 03:21, Arash Zeini wrote:
> 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 :)

A few quirks remain, but on the whole I believe it's quite good.
(Try CVS or koffice-1.2-beta2)

> > 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?

I'm afraid not.
All of this comes from Lars' knowledge. Reading the sources for QRichText
are the only way I know to extract this knowledge. I think I can answer a
few questions on how it should work, now, though.

- -- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
KOffice-1.2-beta2 is coming very shortly...
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