Hi Rob,
Thanks a lot for your answer.
I was really suprised (and happy of course) that somebody took interest in this
subject.
>My opinion is that currently the Text Widget as implemented at the
>C-level isn't really designed to support some of the tricky presentation
>requirements needed for several languages.
>...
>Along the way, I played with fribidi -
>http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/FriBidi/
>which has a perl module...
Yes, I agree: the text widget is not for special requirements, such as RTL
writing and so on.
What does C-level mean?
I had a look at the web site of FriBidi and I found it promising. The trouble
is that I have no C compiler on my Windows machine. Although at home I use
Linux (and an old SGI) so I could try FriBidi, I'd like to make a pure perl
program because - besides some WEB technologies -, perl is the only programming
language what I know fairly well to make platform independent GUI applications.
(Anyway my profession is a PL/SQL developer.) By the way I was curious what can
Visual C++ make with RTL writing. I tried to make a Windows Form by .Net, and
there wasn't any problem with wrapping and scrollbars. Good for .Net
programmers... C++ is one of the things what I'll have to study...
>It might even be worth looking around for other Text
>implementations, and then looking into porting it to Perl/Tk. This is
>something that I've seen done fairly well in Java.
How do you do that? I have no experiences importing things from other languages
at all. Would you so kind to send an example?
>Has Hungarian Runic been approved for adoption into Unicode, yet?
I understand not yet.
>Have you read this document:
>http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1758.pdf
No I haven't until your e-mail. Maybe I'll contact the author.
Unfortunately I have no time to work on the Runic Writing (in fact my boss hang
around me and I should work on my duty) however I send the standard font
(Windows) of Hungarian Runic and the perl code of some very basic experiments.
First install the enclosed font set and then run the perl code to see Hungarian
Runic.
See your answer soon
Zsolt
text_canvas.pl
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text_reverser2.pl
Description: text_reverser2.pl
ROVSTDJB.TTF
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