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This defect is a placeholder for discussion related to implementation of API resolving issue with display of File Type complex expression. Problem overview ----------------- File path string should be rendered left-to-right and also has the Unicode Bidirectional algorithm applied to it in order to render the mixed text of the segment in the proper orientation. As an example, a file path such as d:\myFolder\FOLDER\MYFILE.java (where capital letters indicate RTL-oriented text) should render as d:\myFolder\REDLOF\ELIFYM.java when using the Unicode Bidi algorithm and segmenting the string according to a specified delimiter set. However, since the OS does not understand that the string should be segmented according to each segment of the file path, it renders the string as java.ELIFYM\REDLOF\d:\myFolder Approach overview ----------------- The design for File Path complex expression is available in bug 179191 dedicated to general complex expressions design discussion. Following the terminology defined in bug 183164 File Path type of complex expression belong to group 1 languages. This group includes languages which can be adequately parsed into tokens using oversimplified technique of parsing - tokenization based on list of separators. For File Path this list should include: colon (:), backslash (\) and full stop (.) for Windows, slash (/) and full stop (.) for Linux. History of handling and related instances addressed in various components ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The cycle of handling File Path complex expression in Eclipse started from TVT defects back in December 2005. See bug 119517 for more details. This defect was resolved via another bug 126402 in February 2006. The source code of TextProcessor which fixes this defect can be found here: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=34133&action=view . In May 2006 the implementation was improved via bug 139806. Owner of implementation is Karice McIntyre. According to Karice McIntyre in bug 148966, comment 15 the originator of the code is Lina Kemmel. History outlines ----------------- * bug 119517 - general description * bug 126402 - implementation * bug 139806 - improvement of implementation * bug 146220 - suggestion for gneralization of solution * bug 181961 - issue instance handled in BIRT * bug 181965 - issue instance handled in DTP * bug 179328 - issue instance handled in TPTP Documentation -------------- The implementation (aka API) is described at this site: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/New_Bidi_APIs
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