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Re: [Nano-devel] Adding right to left (RTL) languages support


From: Mahyar Abbaspour
Subject: Re: [Nano-devel] Adding right to left (RTL) languages support
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 18:02:47 +0430

Hi Benno,

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:

I doubt you will find any right-to-left-language speakers on this list,
otherwise I would have expected more requests for RTL support.

Well, that's a pity. But I'm sure this will attract lots of RTL language speakers
the moment they become aware of this feature in Nano :)
 
Do you think having your changes in SVN will increase the chances
of finding testers?  I think that posting a patch againts the last
released version is more likely to find testers: it's easier to build
from a (patched) tarball than from SVN.

Indeed it's easier to build form a patched tarball than from SVN. However
my intention for using a separate branch was to separate the development of
this feature from the mainline branch as I think it's better to take an
incremental approach toward this feature. This separate branch can be highly
unstable. We code and commit incrementally and ask people who are familiar with
RTL languages to test it until the branch becomes stable enough that can be
merged with the dev branch. By doing this I think, the testers can easier keep
themselves synced with the latest changes. (I wish Nano used Git instead of
SVN. It would make the things far more easier.)
BTW, if this method is too much of work or you think it's harder than patching,
we can stick to good old patches.
 
By the way, when RTL support is added, I think it should be possible
to disable it via a configure option, say --disable-rtl, because the
changes will most likely be far reaching and slow nano down a bit.
People who have no need for RTL languages should be allowed to
exclude the complicating Fribidi stuff.

Yes, I agree. I'll include a configure option to disable RTL for those who do not
need this feature.


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Mahyar

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