Re: Hebrew

Hi,


"alf" writes:
> I need help on manipulating Hebrew strings, i.e., reading and
> writing files, and comparing strings via Tcl commands. Any Israeli
> Tclers around?

I'm not an Israeli (I don't even understand much Hebrew I have to
admit). But anyway...

For automated text processing, Hebrew is no different from other
languages, if you have text in logical character order (in the order
in which you would write the characters). You just need to know the
encoding that is used in the files and use [fconfigure -encoding]
accordingly.

The main difficulty is display and GUI input, because Tk doesn't
really handle bidi scripts yet. For display on X11 you may be able to
get by with doing the reverse ordering of the characters yourself.
This doesn't work on Windows, because the Windows text rendering
engine will fight you.

<http://wiki.tcl.tk/hebrew> is a good start on the Tcl wiki with
pointers to interesting pages.


So what do you really need, and how can we further help? ;-)


benny
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