[webkit-dev] whats bidi stand for?

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Feb 2, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Eric Seidel 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.

"bidi" is a pretty common term of art. Also, the code in the file does  
more than just bidi handling, so LineLayout.cpp as Hyatt suggested may  
be the best name. I don't think "BidirectionalWordSorting" would be  
right - bidi applies at boundaries between right-to-left and left-to- 
right text, which are not directly related to word boundaries.

Regards,
Maciej

>
>
> -eric
>
> 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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