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RTL Languages

Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:45 am
by Tim
We have received requests over the years for Bible Analyzer to better support Right-To-Left languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, Persian (or Farci). We recently received a request from Great Britain for the Persian language from a brother who evangelizes Iranian immigrants.

The issue was the GUI and page display tools Bible Analyzer uses does not support RTL languages mixed with English very well. However, since there was a need I did some hacking around and added some code to mirror certain elements in the Bible Panel, ref. popups, and MultiWindow displays and got a nice working system for RTL languages.

Here is an image of the Westminster Leningrad Codex w/Strongs Numbers and below it an image of the Smith/Van Dyke Arabic Bible.
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These will be available within the next couple weeks or so. We will announce it here in the forum and newsletter.

Re: RTL Languages

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 7:14 am
by rokas
Westminster Leningrad Codex w/Strongs Numbers is awesome! :shock: :D

Re: RTL Languages

Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 5:41 pm
by darrel_jw
Has this been uploaded yet? I just downloaded WLCs and it still displays as left-to-right.

Re: RTL Languages

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 7:58 pm
by darrel_jw
Either I am missing something or RTL is not implemented yet? Please help.

Darrel

Re: RTL Languages

Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 4:38 am
by darrel_jw
Do I have to go into the interlinear to see RTL? Does the bible window not show RTL?

Darrel

Re: RTL Languages

Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:03 am
by Tim
Windows will do RTL in the Bible panel, Linux won't.

Re: RTL Languages

Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 10:29 pm
by darrel_jw
So it is not an issue with Linux, but the way you have coded in BA. Both Xiphos and Unique Bible App display RTL beautifully (these are Linux apps!). theWord, which is a Windows app that runs under Wine, displays RTL perfectly.

Darrel

Re: RTL Languages

Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 8:30 am
by Tim
I'm not sure why you want to argue this, but a few years ago RTL texts DID display correctly in Linux in the Bible Analyzer Bible panel. Linux made a significant change to their window manager and broke the RTL functionality with the wxWidgets/wxPython window page display manager. It still doesn't work.

To get the BA Interlinear to work on Linux I had to use a completely different page manager, an HTML display which is the core of most web browsers. That way Linux users can view the text correctly even though the regular Bible Panel can't.

It would take a huge amount of work to convert the Bible panel to a different page display like the Interlinear and Lord only knows if it will ever be done, but the Interlinear display will do essentially everything that can be done in the Bible panel so I'm not sure what the issue is.

Re: RTL Languages

Posted: Sun May 21, 2023 7:16 pm
by darrel_jw
The big issue is the interlinear only uses WLCi, so my other Hebrew bibles are left at LTR.