Re: Tk's lack of "chrome" (prompted by Re: Tk::FunkyButton ?)
Vadim Konovalov <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.perl.tk |
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| Message-ID | <1134161775.2230.7.camel@mdk10> |
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 21:53, Rob Seegel wrote: > Konovalov, Vadim wrote: > > > <> > > What is wrong with non-western language support in perl/Tk or tcl/tk, BTW? > > For one, it is currently limited to Character encodings, and limited > support of Unicode, unless I missed something. There are other aspects > to consider for several langauges. Support for special input methods, > bidi support for languages that read right-to-left. Support for you're right about right-to-left (bidi), thanks for pointing this. I'm not sure about all other your points: IMHO current Unicode in Perl is quite strong; I use Unicode often (I am non-English who uses far-east sometimes:) > diacritics and more complex ligatures which suggest on-the-fly > transformations as data is input. Some of these things are lofty goals > but are being tackled in other GUI toolkits. CJK languages have their > own challenges as well. Indeed, it seems reasonable for complicated i18n to be have a large support library. Vadim. -++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe ptk" to [email protected]