[Geany] Re: GTK-Open-Dialog (Windows)

[Enrico Tröger]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:51:03 +0100, Francois Cami <fcami at winsoft.fr>
wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 21:23:57 +0100
> Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:12:03 +0100, Francois Cami <fcami at winsoft.fr>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 1/ the new "open" dialog window is perfect, the encoding selector
> > > is exactly what I needed, except it's a unsorted, see attached
> > > screenshot for an example. I suspect this may be GTK's fault,
> > > though.
> > It is sorted, but in a strange way. The list is sorted
> > alphabetically by the name of the encoding and the list is
> > displayed from left to write. So the first item is at row 0, column
> > 0, the second at row 0, column two and so on. Perhaps we will
> > change this.
>
> Ah, I hadn't noticed this. So it's not unsorted at all, it's not
> sorted the way I expected it to be :)
> Sorting by english name of encoding (for example "Western"), since
> this is what is displayed first, may be better. That's what I
> expected (and that's what kate does on Linux).
>
> > > 4/ however editing texts in right-to-left languages like arabic
> > > doesn't work. Geany seems able to add or remove characters
> > > correctly, but the cursor is always displayed at one end of the
> > > arabic text line, not where it actually is (i.e. not where text is
> > > added if the user starts to add text). The same behaviour exists
> > > in hebrew.
> > Did you try whether it works with Scite? Sorry, can't say very much
> > about this at the moment, never played with RTL languages.
>
> Either I'm doing something wrong, or Scite cannot display Arabic (on
> Windows, at least). Geany++ !
Can you send me zipped test file with some notes what is happening and
what should happen? Thanks.

Regards,
Enrico

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