[webkit-dev] whats bidi stand for?

[Bin Chen]

On Feb 3, 2008 7:09 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
> That sounds like one vote for renaming that file.
> "BidirectionalTextLayout.cpp" :)
>
> Or maybe BidirectionalWordSorting or similar.  Mitz and Hyatt are two of
> very few to ever have hacked on that file.
A good file name is better than a document file.
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> -eric
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> On Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Cameron McCormack <cam at mcc.id.au> wrote:
> > Hi Bin.
> >
> > Bin Chen:
> >
> > > I am reading the source code of webkit right now, I find a file name
> > > like bidi, I can't know the exact meaning, can you tell me whats this
> > > stand for?
> >
> > "Bidi" is an abbreviation for "bidirectional text", and refers to blocks
> > of text that use both left-to-right and right-to-left scripts (e.g. a
> > paragraph with English text that also includes some Arabic text).  See:
> >
> >  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text
> >
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> > Cameron McCormack, http://mcc.id.au/
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