Render of Thai text with and without mouse selection

[Leo Savernik]

Am Montag, 27. Dezember 2004 20:53 schrieb Allan Sandfeld Jensen:
> On Monday 27 December 2004 20:21, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > The proper solution would be to draw the full run, and clip it between
> > the combined characters (this will keep the characters from being drawn
> > in their separated form). However, there's no public API in Qt to
> > retrieve the exact point of clipping (or is there, Lars?).
>
> That would be the good looking solution. I don't know common practices in
> these languages but would splitting the text at selection points with a
> breakable zerowidth space and issuing a local relayout, be all that bad?

Yes, it might change the meaning of the word (maybe making out of "wisest 
leader" a "fuckhead", thus escalating WW3 ;-) ). A zerowidth-space certainly 
breaks up the combining, which leaves us in a situation no better than the 
current one.

>
> From experimenting with www.farsikde.org, I think there are more problems.
> Often the selection doesn't not even appear near the cursor.

Oh my gawd! We have problems, we have problems...

Excellent test page :-)

mfg
 Leo
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