| [platform-swt-dev] Bidi on XP |
I was navigating through the source code of StyledText trying to understand how it works.
I realized that there is a partial support for bidirectional editing.
It is said in the source code that Bidi is enabled only on a few Windows platform.
It does not works well on standard Windows XP which have multilingual extension activated (Chinese, Arabic, ...)
In the BidiUtil.isBidiPlatform() there is a comment that I surprised me :
// The following test is a workaround for bug report 27629. On WinXP,
// both bidi and complex script (e.g., Thai) languages must be installed
// at the same time. Since the bidi platform calls do not support
// double byte characters, there is no way to run Eclipse using the
// complex script languages on XP, so constrain this test to answer true
// only if a bidi input language is defined. Doing so will allow complex
// script languages to work (e.g., one can install bidi and complex script
// languages, but only install the Thai keyboard).
Why "bidi platform calls do not support double byte characters".
I thought all the Windows APIs where available in Unicode.
Does someone has knowledge on this subject?
Where does this limitation comes from?
I tested forcing the BidiUtil.isBidiPlatform() to return 'true'. It works well for arabic (the letter where in the correct
order) but chinese characteres were corrupted.
Emmanuel Castro
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