Re: Hebrew

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 22:33:29 -0700, Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. <rleif@rleif.com> wrote:
> The horizontal advance after rendering a glyph in horizontal orientation.
> The default value is the value of the font's horizAdvX attribute. Glyph
> widths are required to be positive, even if the glyph is typically rendered
> right-to-left, as in Hebrew and Arabic scripts.
> ------------------------------------------------
> I would like to see this type of functionality in Ada. However as a
> practical matter, the use of web technology to display Hebrew can be as
> above or as the Israelis are doing it.

What type of functionality? Right-to-left? It doesn't seem like that 
big a deal - wide_text_io could handle it right now, right? Personally,
I'd find normalization functions to be more useful; rtl only matters
when dumping to a terminal without higher-order protocols (curses 
should handle it for you, if and when anyone does serious work on 
UTF-8 compatibility), whereas normalization comes in handy when ever
you run into Unicode text from the outside.

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