[Tuxpaint-i18n] FriBidi added to Tux Paint (was: Tux Paint Hebrew text entry)

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

I've dropped in some basic FriBidi support into Tux Paint.
Can people please test to see if it's working properly (esp. folks using
other locales)?  Mac and Windows (Martin and John) and BeOS (Begasus) checks
would be nice, too, thanks. :)

One thing I noticed in CVS just now was that [Alt] key doesn't work for me,
to change input method when I'm in Japanese, Korean or Thai locales any more.
What happened?  Did I break something?  Is it an Ubutnu / SDL version issue?

Or perhaps it's that I'm using an IM switcher in KDE.... *checks*
Doesn't seem to be it.  :(


On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:14:31AM +0200, F Wolff wrote:
> On Di, 2008-12-02 at 14:56 -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > I was just asked whether Tux Paint can enter Hebrew text in the correct
> > direction (right-to-left).  I installed an 'il' keymap on my Linux laptop
> > and told KDE to switch to it, and tried the Text tool in Tux Paint.
> > I was pleased to see Hebrew characters popping up!
<snip>
> I'm not familiar with the project myself, but isn't this exactly what
> something like Freebidi is for? You really don't want to be guessing if
> things should go left-to-right or right-to-left. Let something else
> handle that for you. If you are typing text right-to-left but you want
> numbers to go left-to-right, are you going to be changing direction all
> the time? Do we want to make it possible to do it wrong?
<snip>

Thanks for the tip, Friedel! :)

-bill!