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List:       ktexteditor-devel
Subject:    Re: patch for Kate and Indic languages
From:       Hamish Rodda <rodda () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-05-22 8:37:17
Message-ID: 200605221837.19703.rodda () kde ! org
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Hi Jens,

On Sunday 21 May 2006 05:24, Jens Herden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we have a big problem with Kate and Khmer because of the non constant
> character width. This problem must affect many other Indic languages as
> well!
>
> The text renderer in Kate just adds the character width one by one to
> calculate the position of the cursor. This breaks very bad for Khmer
> because two character together can have a different width as the sum of the
> width of the two character. That means when I type Khmer the cursor is not
> where the character will appear and navigation is almost impossible.
>
> I made a patch to fix this and I want to have this in KDE 3.5.3, if
> possible. Can please someone look at it?

Does this make kate usable for Khmer? I have long given up trying to support 
bidi with kate 3.x, it will work in 4.x.  However if this makes kate usable 
for khmer without other large bugs being evident I'm happy for it to go in.

Cheers,
Hamish.

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