[MonoDevelop] Arabic Support

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 22:12, sam7_976 <msaawad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> thank you for your reply.
>> but what about Linux, i tried it on linux and it is the same problem.
>> in Linux the arabic chars is displayed correctly in design time (in Mono
>> Develop) but in run time it appear disconnected and from left to right.
>>
>> in Mac it displayed like unreadable symbols in design time and disconnected
>> and from left to right in run time.
>
> I can confirm this on Kubuntu 10.10 with Monodevelop 2.4. A simple
> console app with a Hebrew sentence displays the characters in
> left-to-right order instead of right-to-left. Note that this is in the
> "Monodevelop External Console". My regular console (KDE Konsole)
> displays Hebrew with no problems.

The external console on Linux is normally gnome-terminal, but falls
back to xterm. If you're having RTL rendering issues, I'd guess it's
xterm. Please file an enh bug for MD to detect the KDE environment and
use Konsole.

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