[Adium-devl] Improving BiDi support

[Andre-John Mas]

On 4-Sep-08, at 19:44 , Ofri wrote:

>
> On 05/09/2008, at 01:51, mm w wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> It's true but it's not quite simple,  a couple months ago, I wrote a
>> rpc-like systeme to support BiDi
>> one of major problem is when one client is set-up RTL and the other
>> client LTR
>
> That's exactly the point of this discussion. Our algorithm doesn't
> care about the other side and formats the message based only on its
> content.

Couldn't you simply do that based on unicode character range? Rather
than trying to come up with a solution independently, I would recommend
looking at what work has been done in Firefox or WebKit. Also, since
from my understanding we are already using Webkit for the rendering of
the display, couldn't we further leverage it to handle BiDi?

A few links:

http://developer.mozilla.org/En/Documentation_for_BiDi_Mozilla
http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/
http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/


Andre