Hebrew search in PDFs is backwards?

[Dotan Cohen]

2010/1/19 Diego Iastrubni <elcuco at kde.org>:
> This is really, really bad.... from qt/src/gui/painting/qpainter.cpp, inside
> void QPainter::drawText(const QPointF &p, const QString &str, int tf, int
> justificationPadding)
>
> I see this code:
>    QStackTextEngine engine(str, d->state->font);
>    engine.option.setTextDirection(d->state->layoutDirection);
>    engine.itemize();
>    QScriptLine line;
>    line.length = str.length();
>    engine.shapeLine(line);
>    int nItems = engine.layoutData->items.size();
>    QVarLengthArray<int> visualOrder(nItems);
>    QVarLengthArray<uchar> levels(nItems);
>    for (int i = 0; i < nItems; ++i)
>        levels[i] = engine.layoutData->items[i].analysis.bidiLevel;
>    QTextEngine::bidiReorder(nItems, levels.data(), visualOrder.data());
>
> Now... it seems like QTextEngine::bidiReorder()  does exactly what you want
> logical->visual. However... this class is defined inside qtextengine_p.h...
> which means this is not official API.
>
> But, IMHO, even if it's not marked, you can open a bug report on this at
> Nokia's bug tracker, and they will handle it for Qt 4.8, maybe 4.7. Meanwhile,
> if the header is installed - abuse it. If it's not included - hack it inside
> your application
>
> (*) I know that this will not be accepted at KDE's svn ...
>

Could you file that bug, Diego? It is far above my understanding or
level. Thanks!

Here is the Qt bug tracker:
http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/secure/CreateIssue!default.jspa


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