[sword-devel] reversed BHS

Chris Little sword-devel@crosswire.org
Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:01:18 -0700 (MST)


On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Dave Washburn wrote:

> Here's my question that I was hoping to find the answer to there: since 
> gnomesword can't display the BHS Hebrew text from right to left, I wonder if 
> it would be feasible to make a separate module of it with the internal text 
> reversed.  Or perhaps someone is already working on this?  I know I could 
> just use the KDE program, but I'd prefer to stick with one program and Gnome 
> is my desktop of choice.....

No, CrossWire will never release a module that intentionally violates the 
Unicode standard (such as this would).  If the renderer that GnomeSword 
uses does not automatically apply BiDi algorithms, the UTF8BiDiReorder 
filter may be applied to do so within Sword before text is sent to the 
renderer.

--Chris