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

[Francois Cami]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 14:48:44 +0100
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> 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.

Will do. Thanks !