How to type RLE character in KDE?

[Dotan Cohen]

> Why is this a KDE bug?
>

In Gnome and Windows the user can type an arbitrary unicode character
that he needs. In KDE he cannot. You can argue that it is a Qt or Xorg
bug, but in the end only KDE users suffer from it.


> Typing RLE seems rather pointless if you can't also type PDF (RLE starts
> an embedding of right-to-left text, PDF ends it).
>

Yes, I would like the PDF character as well.

> But could you give an example where you'd actually prefer to use
> RLE/LRE/PDF to RLM/LRM?
>

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Because of the embedded LTR characters, the only way to get it to
display properly in an LTR environment is to wrap the whole thing in
RLE/PDF characters.


> BTW: you can always map three extra keys on the keyboard to provide RLE,
> LRE and PDF. Just like RLM and LRM are defined in
> /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/il (look for 'LRM'). e.g. use finalmem,
> finalnun and finalkaph .
>

That might work. Thanks.

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