Re: Tk's lack of "chrome" (prompted by Re: Tk::FunkyButton ?)

Vadim Konovalov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.tk
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.



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