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

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Wed Nov 8 13:48:44 UTC 2006


On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:45:08 +0100, Francois Cami <fcami at winsoft.fr>
wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:48:16 +0100
> Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
>
> > 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:
> > > >
> > > > > 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.
>
> See attached file. What should happen is exactly what notepad.exe
> does, i.e. :
> * the first roman text is normally parsed from left to right,
> * then the cursor jumps to the right of the arabic text and parses it
> from right to left,
> * then the second roman text is parsed from left to right.
>
> geany does _exactly_ that (that's easy to determine, just add a space
> into the arabic text, use the right arrow, then add another space and
> you'll see that the second space is at the left of the first one,
> which is correct) but the cursor is not displayed correctly inside
> the right to left text, it stays at one end of the text.
Confirmed. But this is a Scintilla issue(happens also in Scite on
Linux). I suggest to open a bug report on
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2439&atid=102439.


Regards,
Enrico

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