Hello,
Just wanted you all to know that starting from today, there's is partial Hebrew and Arabic, and full right to left support in SHR.
Ainulindale was kind enough to add a patch I sent him for libevas to the SHR repos, so starting from the next image,
this will be "built-in". (Of course also available as packages).
As for e in general, well the patch has been sent to raster, which will apply it to e when he can.
What's there:
* Full RTL support, RTL renders correctly and not in reverse like it used to.
* Arabic letters are now changed according to context (I tried my best, and gfather said it's fine, though since I don't know Arabic, I didn't do proper QA)
* Hebrew nikkud and Arabic vowels work as well.
What's missing:
* Selection of doesn't work on text that includes RTL.
* Cursor position is off with text that includes RTL.
* Remembering RTL direction over lines.
* Auto alignment option for gui objects.
* No arabic keyboard available (gfather is working on that one).
Now it's time for you to start nationalizing applications and SHR/FSO/Any other distro that uses illume.
Enjoy,
Tom. (TAsn)
Pictures (The keyboard there is just a mock-up for testing, and I know the nikkud is bad, wanted to check "exotic" nikkuds ;] btw, not sure if what I entered in arabic is even a word, since I don't know arabic, though it's the sequence ba ta ra gim):
P.S
Please let me know if you find any bugs/issues.
Just wanted you all to know that starting from today, there's is partial Hebrew and Arabic, and full right to left support in SHR.
Ainulindale was kind enough to add a patch I sent him for libevas to the SHR repos, so starting from the next image,
this will be "built-in". (Of course also available as packages).
As for e in general, well the patch has been sent to raster, which will apply it to e when he can.
What's there:
* Full RTL support, RTL renders correctly and not in reverse like it used to.
* Arabic letters are now changed according to context (I tried my best, and gfather said it's fine, though since I don't know Arabic, I didn't do proper QA)
* Hebrew nikkud and Arabic vowels work as well.
What's missing:
* Selection of doesn't work on text that includes RTL.
* Cursor position is off with text that includes RTL.
* Remembering RTL direction over lines.
* Auto alignment option for gui objects.
* No arabic keyboard available (gfather is working on that one).
Now it's time for you to start nationalizing applications and SHR/FSO/Any other distro that uses illume.
Enjoy,
Tom. (TAsn)
Pictures (The keyboard there is just a mock-up for testing, and I know the nikkud is bad, wanted to check "exotic" nikkuds ;] btw, not sure if what I entered in arabic is even a word, since I don't know arabic, though it's the sequence ba ta ra gim):
P.S
Please let me know if you find any bugs/issues.
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