[Qt-interest] Bidi changes in 4.7

Josh jnfo-c at grauman.com
Sat Sep 25 21:00:42 CEST 2010


Hello all,

I've just upgraded from 4.7 beta 1 to 4.7 final (under Linux). There seem 
to be a number of changes to the way Qt handles Bidi (right to left) text 
in 4.7 final. I tried to look for documentation that tells all the 
specific changes and couldn't find anywhere.

The one specific change that I need to figure out how to "undo" is the 
placement of right-to-left text. For all my QLabels and QTextEdit's, when 
they start with Hebrew text, *now* the whole line is aligned-right, 
whereas before the alignment was still aligned-left even though the text 
was right-to-left. The layout-direction of all my widgets is set to 
left-to-right (not auto). So I'm wondering how to go back to the old 
behavior? I'm posting here because it doesn't seem like a bug, but a 
conscious decision to change how bidi works, but maybe it is a bug? 
Thanks.

Josh



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