Hebrew e-mail - Mandriva 2010.0 - KDE4

[Aharon Schkolnik]

On Tuesday, June 08, 2010, Matitiahu Allouche wrote:
> You must insert the RLM *after* the period.


Seems kind of counter-intuitive, but yeah, it works !

So, what's the best way to get RLM bound to a key ?


> 
> 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:
> Matitiahu Allouche/Israel/IBM at IBMIL
> Cc:
> linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> Date:
> 08/06/2010 10:23
> Subject:
> Re: Hebrew e-mail - Mandriva 2010.0 - KDE4
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Nope. RLM doesn't work for me. If I am at the end of a line, and I
> insert a
> RLM, and then a period, the period gets inserted at the beginning of the
> line, not the end. If I insert a RLE, the period gets inserted at the
> end of the line.
> 
> On Monday, June 07, 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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