[Fribidi-discuss] Some thoughts about BiDi Quirks Handling

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir at technion.ac.il
Sat Sep 21 05:45:02 EST 2002


On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Omer Zak wrote:

>
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> > > But then, what about Wine? What about OpenOffice? What about Mozilla
> > > (actually, I think they are using their own algorithm already)? What
> > > about QT KWord? What about Pango?
> >
> > OTOH: with the other options: someone needs to insert explicit bidi
> > overrides. Otherwise the text will look incorrect once copied to any other
> > program that is not aware of its quirk origin.

Clarification:

It's not hand-editing. The import-filter should insert them. Note that I
am not exactly sure if this is feasable with the current import filter.

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Tzafrir Cohen
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