[PD] Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Kanji display/editing issues WAS: can anyone make screencasts of 0.43 editing features?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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On 01/29/2013 03:59 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 2013-01-26 04:04, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> ? full unicode support, so Greek, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hebrew,
>> Arabic, etc. works in patches, filenames, MIDI device names, etc.
> 
> doest this make the bidi-plugin obsolete or does it mean "hebrew, arabic
> etc. without RTL-support"?

I guess I should correct and qualify that. I think that the _display_ of all
unicode is working fine, but with Right-to-Left and probably especially
Bi-Directional text, editing is still problematic.

Also, the box widths are off when using Chinese and Kanji characters.  They
are much wider than the 'M' character that the box spacing is currently
based off of.  There is a patch to hard-code Pd to use spacing that is
correct for Chinese and Kanji, but then it makes the boxes much too wide
when using alphabets. The solution really is to make Tcl/pd-gui handle the
box widths, which means some big changes to Pd that should happen anyway.

.hc
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