[Kde-pim] Composer in trunk does not do BiDi

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi,

On Thursday 20 December 2007, Shai Berger wrote:
> This is my first post to this list. I am a software developer living in
> Israel, and lately I have found some time to meddle in KDE development,
> something which I've long wanted to do. I have been a KDE user for more
> than seven years, and kde-pim applications -- in particular kmail -- have
> been a large part of the reason for this.
Thanks. We hope it will stay this way.

> I write to the list because I found what seems to be a regression in
> KMail's composer in trunk, with respect to bidirectional writing. in KMail
> 1.9.6, if I start a paragraph in Hebrew (which is written right-to-left),
> composer immediately does the right thing (aligns it right, and displays it
> as a RTL paragraph). In the trunk version, this does not happen, and I
> could not even find a way to tell the composer that a paragraph is RTL.
KMail's composer is based on the standard KDE textedit. Does this problem also 
happen in other KDE places, like Konqueror's text input field on websites?

> To make this clear, I uploaded images:
>
> http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7015/kmailcurrentam9.png is what the
> composer looks like today, when writing a message containing a paragraph in
> English (LTR) and one in Hebrew (RTL). This is good.
>
> http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4283/kmailbadup4.png is what the
> composer in trunk looks like, with the same message. This is bad. Actually,
> it is beyond bad: For Hebrew users, this is a showstopper.
>
> As those of you who touched bidi issues are probably aware, it is not just
> alignment: if you look closely, you'll see that the punctuation (ellipsis)
> appears to the right of the text in the new version. In the old one, it is
> to the text's left, where it should be.
>
> I found this while trying to fix
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134036 . I've uploaded a patch there,
> and I would appreciate your feedback and/or attention to that also, but the
> problem I'm reporting in this mail seems to me much more important.
Thanks for looking into this.
I'll try to have a look at this. However, I need to test it. How can I do 
that? I probably need some way to input BIDI text, can you explain me how I 
can switch my standard english KDE desktop to a BIDI-enabled one?

Regards,
Thomas

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