Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

On 05/10/10 10:31, Gregor Best wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:20:33AM +0200, pancake wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>>> * support for right-to-left scripts,
>>>
>> Point this understand dont I.
>> [...]
>>
> There are languages (such as arabic) that are not written in the latin
> left-to-right fashion but exactly the other way round (i.e. you have to
> start reading at the right end of a line and end at the left).
>
> Gregor Best
>
I was not planning to add support to this in the library itself.

If we add support to this we should add support for top-down,
and other forms like rotated text, etc..

The thing is that , as Mate said, that pango already does that, and
this can be integrated with SWK as external optional dependency.

--pancake
Received on Mon May 10 2010 - 08:55:04 UTC