[TxMt] Re: right-to-left languages causing havoc in textmate

[running]

By the way... I tried to edit the file in TextEdit and my head is
spinning a little. These letters jump back and forth in mysterious
ways and don't behave like good letters should.

I admit, I don't understand RTL languages.... maybe TextMate got it
right after all, I don't know.

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:41 AM, running<running.cz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I needed to write perl code with some arabic letters recently. While
> right-to-left languages are (excuse me) pain in the *** on more than
> one level, textmate is not really helping me.
>
> if I edit RTL language in TextMate, cursor moves "as expected" (=
> right key moves right, lef key moves left), which is not standard
> behaviour with RTL languages (in other editors, when you press right
> in RTL language, you move left, and left moves right). But that would
> be OK.
>
> But it doesn't end there - if you, in TM, edit something on one end of
> RTL text, it appears on the OTHER end. So, you are writing something
> at the other end of the line, where the cursor is, so you don't know
> where you will be writing until you write.
>
> If RTL is mixed with LTR, the letters appear/dissapear randomly, but
> never where the cursor is.
>
> Another thing, maybe more important? - the file is actually saved
> differently from how it looks in textmate. Example: in textmate, it
> looks like this:
>
> http://i41.tinypic.com/b8n636.png
>
> but in textedit (and how perl sees it) it looks like this:
>
> http://i40.tinypic.com/2i2bke8.png
>
> (notice the misplaced parenthesis and semicolon)
>
> I don't really use Arabic much, but I think it is a bug worth fixing.
>
> Karel Bilek
>