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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Gecko
From:       Mukhsein Johari <arashi1 () pd ! jaring ! my>
Date:       2000-04-10 13:14:47
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> Well, in principle, that's what you have to do. But there are a quite a
> few things which make the implementation non trivial. Don't you think
> there is a reason, that mozilla still doesn't support it the right
> way? And it took me (knowing Hebrew) more than half a year where I came
> back quite often to the problem to find a solution which works (complies
> to the Unicode BiDi algorithm), and is fast and flexible enough to be used
> for all cases.
> 
> The basic BiDi algorithm
> (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/tr9-6.html) is a document of
> about 10 pages, but the implementation is non trivial, especially to get
> it working with all the HTML/CSS formatting stuff.
> 
> Anyway, it works nicely in khtml since two weeks :-)
> 
> Lars

It's just like you, Lars, to complain about how difficult something is
to do and then say:
"Anyway, it works nicely in khtml now"! :-)

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