[platform-ui-dev] adopting to the Bi-Directional world: how should we pa

[Oleg Besedin <obesedin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We recently had a number of discussions
on how to deal with the Bi-Directional (BiDi) string processing.

In a nutshell, the scenario is:

- an editor or a view creates a label
that says something like "C;\my.txt - version 1"
- in a BiDi language, we expect the
text to be transposed so that it flows right-to-left, but the file name
should stay left-to-right: "1 noisrev - C:\my.txt"

In many cases we have one portion of
the code that knows what this string means (text + file name), but the
code that puts the string on a display does not have this information.

Hence, the question: how should we pass
the extra information about String's contents?

I opened an enhancement request 

        https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=300890


to see if we can arrive at some clever
solution to this problem. If you have an idea please add your comments
to that enhancement request.


Sincerely,
Oleg Besedin