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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Bug#24877: Reversing text box contents in Logical BiDi encodings
From:       Ilya Konstantinov <kde-bug-report () future ! galanet ! net>
Date:       2001-04-30 11:26:09
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:16:01PM +0200, Lars Knoll wrote:
> On Saturday 28 April 2001 01:20, kde-bug-report@future.galanet.net wrote:
> > Package: khtml
> > Version: 3.0 (using KDE 2.1.1 )
> > Severity: normal
> > Installed from:    Debian Package 4:2.1.1-2 (testing/unstable)
> > Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (Debian release)
> > OS:                Linux 2.4.3-pre3 i686
> > OS/Compiler notes:
> >
> > Konqueror does unnecessary BiDi conversion on Hebrew contents of text box
> > contents on Logical BiDi encodings (such as ISO-8859-8-I, CP-1255 and
> > UTF-8). This creates a ridiculous situation, where every submission of the
> > form reverses the text.
> 
> I don't think it does another conversion. The problem is rather, that input 
> fields do not support BiDi in Qt-2.x. So if someone enters text into the 
> input fields, they will be send out in visual order, not logical.

If the page is a Logical one, <textarea> and <input> contents would be
reversed. This might be useful for displaying (e.g. a site serving me
their license agreement in a <textarea> for reading only), but once I
want to edit the logical text there (assuming I'm willing to reverse
the text in my head), there's a problem.

-- 
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov

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