Okay. Thanks for the help. I do not have that particular font. I am on Ubuntu. But it appears that the standard Arial does have a version of Hebrew glyphs. It took me a couple of tries to get it to work. I had to close the Playground I had open as it remained in the original font. But when I inspected the string. The inspector displayed the correct fonts. After I changed fonts and opened a new Playground. The new Playground displayed Hebrew and Greek correctly. I would presume when I develop the user interface I can select whichever Hebrew or Greek font I want to display in that UI element? It does render them in reverse order. But I would think that I can take care of that in my GUI display element. It is challenging to display RTL and LTR languages together. When I do so in LibreOffice it is a strange experience as to which direction the cursor is operating. :) Again thanks. I am encouraged to proceed. :) Jimmie Houchin On 01/11/2016 09:32 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
Jimmy,
Use the right font, for example Ariel Unicode MS, and you'll be able to display strings in those languages just fine. Processing these strings also works just fine.
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Now, editing them right-to-left is not possible.
Sven
On 11 Jan 2016, at 15:50, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouchin@gmail.com <mailto:jlhouchin@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello,
I briefly tried to copy/paste, read from file, some Hebrew text. I simply get some strange characters.
From a brief search of the archives. I did not find any means of doing a right to left language. I also am not sure how to use a Hebrew font. Font issues would also apply for when I want to use Greek.
What would be needed to do right to left and use the right Hebrew font?
I believe these issues would also apply to anyone wanting Arabic or any other such languages.
The last message I can easily find is in August of 2014. Maybe Pharo isn't the right tool for this job at the moment. But I did want to explore the potential of it being so.
Thanks for any help.
Jimmie