Re: How to recognize keyboard insertion?

[David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>]

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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> To simplify, this means that a `(' should be mirrored when surrounded
> by strong R2L characters, but not when surrounded by Latin characters
> or European digits.
> 

It IS only mirrored when surrounded by rtl characters, that was
what I included the nonsense string for.  When not so surrounded,
it, Shift-9 generates ")" /and it is shown as ")"/.   Arabic keyboards 
still have ( printed on 9, so I guess they work majority-rtl (which 
would make sense).

> Alternatively, we will need to mirror characters even if their
> directionality is L

I don't see why. Other apps don't.

> For example, try typing "9*(4+5)" after switching to Arabic keyboard.
> What do you get?
>


9*)4+5(

surrounded:

ثثث9*)4+5(ثثث
- but that was when I typed the expression as if LtR (i.e. hitting 9 
first),  I suspect an arabic person might type

ثثث(5+4)*9ثثث

- i.e. hitting ")" first when transcribing "9*(4+5)".  Then it just 
works I think as above (I'm including a screenshot from icedove just in 
case)

> Quail cannot easily know the context: it can only mirror these
> characters always, which is not right, since the display will mirror
> them only if they are surrounded by strong R2L characters.
> 
> 

I expect that's in fact what arabic users expect, though an actual 
arabic person might want to speak up...




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