Hebrew search in PDFs is backwards?

[Gadi Cohen]

Matitiahu Allouche wrote:

> PDF's objective is to reflect the exact appearance of text.  For
> Hebrew, it means that the text is stored in visual order.  If your PDF
> viewer accepts user input in logical order (which is the case in
> Windows and Linux), it should transform search arguments (captured
> from a user dialog) from logical to visual order before performing the
> search.
Thanks, that was very helpful!

I'm now trying to implement this in Okular (instead of studying for my
exam, bad!).  I've set up a KDE4 development environment, but have no
prior experience with KDE or Qt at all.

I've searched the 'net for anything relevant, and I see in older
versions of Qt there were functions like QString::visual() and
QHebrewCodec, but nothing like that exists in the latest version (4.6). 
Do you (or does anyone) know how to convert a string from visual to
logical in qt4?

Or for reference purposes, do you or does anyone know offhand how one
would do this with GNOME / Pango?  (Evince is next, although with any
luck I won't look at any of this again until after exams).

Thanks!

Gadi

P.S. Anyone else wondering if all this hail will crack their windows? :)

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