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Subject: Re: Improve the usability of the text editor

Re: Improve the usability of the text editor

From: Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:35:25 -0600

Are you referring to the text editor, or the virtual keyboard? It seems
like everything you've mentioned here mainly relates to the virtual
keyboard.

>
> Besides you can't support others alphabets. But I think it doesn't
> make sense to support Hebrew or Arabic alphabet, because they are
> written from right to left, so you can't really write it. In
> conclusion the text editor is completely unsuitable for those
> alphabets. I suggest to support just Latin alphabet and special
> character, because it makes things easier and it is the most widely
> used alphabetic writing system.
Wouldn't the solution to this be "fix support for RTL languages" (not to
mention not all languages that use other characters are RTL) rather than
disabling support for them entirely?
Received on 2009-12-22

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