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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Farsi problems
From:       Arash Zeini <azeini () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-12-18 15:39:58
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Wow Lars,

This is more than great news. I will try this tonight
and see.
We had also one attempt to patch qapplication_x11.cpp,
which wasn't very successfull.

Thanks for your support,
Arash

--- qt-bugs@trolltech.com wrote:
> Hi Arash,
> 
> sorry that it took me so long to fix this (as it
> turned out to be rather 
> easy), but here it is finally. I've added support
> for XFree86 Unicode keysyms 
> to Qt, and I had no problems inputting characters
> with the farsi keyboard you 
> provided anymore.
> 
> The fix will be in tomorrows snapshot of Qt, or you
> can patch 
> qapplication_x11.cpp yourself (path attached).
> Please test, and tell me if 
> there are remaining problems.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lars
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > We, the Farsi translation team of KDE, have some
> > problems with data input under KDE and hence
> cannot
> > begin our work with the translation.
> > The problem is due to problems in X11 and the
> > non-support for Farsi characters that are to be
> seen
> > as an extension to the Arabic characters encoded
> in
> > Unicode. This problem affects Kurdish too.
> >
> > The only solution for us- at this moment at least-
> > seems to be to 'hack' QT in order to support the
> usage
> > of Farsi with our keyboard layout.
> > Some information on what we did to use a Farsi
> > keyboard can be found at:
> > http://www.farsikde.com/keyboard.html
> >
> > We need some information on where to begin and
> where
> > to locate the RTL and Unicode related parts in QT3
> > source, in order to see if we can do anything in
> this
> > regard.
> > Do you think you could help us getting started
> with
> > this task?
> >
> > Any help, feedback and pointers are highly welcome
> and
> > appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks and Best wishes,
> > Arash Zeini
> >
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> > ====
> //depot/qt/3.0/src/kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp#20
> (text) ====
> 
> @@ -5215,9 +5215,12 @@
>  	    }
>  	    if ( mib != -1 ) {
>  		mapper = QTextCodec::codecForMib( mib );
> -		chars[0] = (unsigned char) (key & 0xff );
> +		chars[0] = (unsigned char) (key & 0xff); // get
> only the fourth bit for conversion later
>  		count++;
>  	    }
> +	} else if ( key >= 0x1000000 && key <= 0x100ffff )
> {
> +	    converted = (ushort) (key - 0x1000000);
> +	    mapper = 0;
>  	}
>  	if ( count < (int)chars.size()-1 )
>  	    chars[count] = '\0';
> 


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