[QScintilla] Support for right to left languages

[Phil Thompson]

On 30 Mar 2019, at 11:13 am, Manuel Gómez <mgrojo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Recently I changed the text editor used for displaying and editing text in DB cells in DB Browser for SQLite from QTextEdit to QScintilla, since this was already used for XML and JSON stored in cells. After the change a user has complained that Arabic text is not shown [1]. What it is strange is that the JSON lexer does display it, although left aligned. The text mode is using no lexer. The XML lexer has the same problem as no lexer: the text is not shown.
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> Is there a way to at least displayed the text like the JSON lexer does?
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> We also have an issue about incorrect rendering of mixed RTL and LTR characters in the SQL lexer [2].
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> I've updated to v2.11.1 with no visible change. However, I've seen that support for RTL languages in Scintilla [3] have been fixed in 2017-10-29 (no version identified) and improved in version 4.1.0. Is this version planned to be used in QScintilla?

There are no short term plans to do so.

Phil