Hebrew e-mail - Mandriva 2010.0 - KDE4

[Shlomo Solomon]

I tried that and it does work, but there's no way I'll get my wife to do that 
- there's got to be an easier way :-(

Is the KDE team or the people who handle Hebrew support aware of this problem? 
Should it be reported as a bug?


On Monday 07 June 2010, Matitiahu Allouche wrote:
>    Hello, Aharon!
> 
> It will drive you nuts all the same, but you should insert an RLM (right
> to left Mark), not an RLE.
> 
> Shalom (Regards),  Mati
>            Bidi Architect
>            Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
>            IBM Israel
>            Phone: +972 2 5888802    Fax: +972 2 5870333    Mobile: +972 52
> 2554160
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From:
> Aharon Schkolnik <aschkolnik at gmail.com>
> To:
> linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il, shlomo at the-solomons.net
> Date:
> 07/06/2010 17:19
> Subject:
> Re: Hebrew e-mail - Mandriva 2010.0 - KDE4
> Sent by:
> linux-il-bounces at cs.huji.ac.il
> 
> 
> 
> I can confirm this extremely annoying problem in KMAIL under Fedora.
> 
> The only way I know to get punctuation at the end of a line in Hebrew is
> to right click and choose insert unicode character and choose RLE start
> right to left embedding. This drives me nuts when I need to send a lot of
> Hebrew emails !
> 
> On Sunday, June 06, 2010, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 June 2010, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > What is you mailer?
> > >
> > > If it's KMail, then you need to switch the direction of writing the
> > > email using Ctrl+Shift. Also see that the Bidi functionality is
> > > enabled in
> > >
> > >  qtconfig.
> >
> > Yes, it's KMail.
> >
> > I ran qtconfig and enabled Bidi (it was not enabled) After seeing your
> > mail, I found the following link explaining how to enable it:
> > http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/40434.html.
> >
> > I then restarted X, but Ctrl-Shift doesn't do anything. As I wrote
> > earlier, the fonts are OK (I use Alt-Shift as the keyboard layout
> > toggle between English and Hebrew). The only problem is punctuation
> > marks. I can "manually" align to the right using the icon on the
> > toolbar, but the punctuation marks still come out wrong.
> 


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Shlomo Solomon
http://the-solomons.net
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