Thanks for this program. I love it! I've been testing it with different languages I have to work with sometimes, and while it works great with Russian and other LTR languages, it does not deal with right-to-left languages correctly. For example, the program joins the Arabic letters properly, but they stay aligned with the left-side of the program. This applies to both the text that is to be typed and the text box you type in.

So I guess my request would be to add support for right-aligning the text and display box when working with RTL languages. I don't need the program itself translated or anything (although I'd be willing to help out with that if you ever decide you want to do something like that. I could help with Arabic and Russian).

Thanks! btw I'm using this on linux (Ubuntu Intrepid)--once I had the dependencies installed it worked great.

Oh, I've never thought about RTL languages and I have no idea how they work programming-wise. Are you suggesting that it would work simply by making the display-text and the input-box right-aligned when one is using an RTL language? Any idea how to detect such a language? Or would a simple check-box in preferences be enough?

Luckily we're not completely in the dark ages of RTL language support anymore. It's not as simple as right-adjusting the text because the punctuation is interpreted as LTR and gets put at the wrong end of the line (there are some other possible problems, too, but I won't go into those here).

These days GTK and QT are capable of displaying RTL text. You would probably need to tell it to both right-align and set the text as RTL. I'm not a programmer (nothing above bash scripts sadly), but I've been digging around, and I've found what looks to be the information you would need about adding RTL support in QT on this site:

http://doc.trolltech.com/qtjambi-4.4/html/com/trolltech/qt/core/Qt.LayoutDirection.html

The following 2 sites also had some information that looked useful in trouble-shooting any problems with RTL input (they deal with QTextEdit, but I think the principles they are talking about are the same).

http://www.qtforum.org/article/26493/qtextedit-has-problem-with-combination-of-text-direction-and-alignment.html http://elcuco2.blogspot.com/2008/10/qtextedit-and-qtextcursor-fun.html

I haven't been able to come up with any information about auto-detecting language, although that last link I listed mentioned it in one of the comments, so there's probably a way to do it. I know GTK apps these days (at least Gedit and GIMP) seem to figure out that you're typing Arabic and switch you to the right direction immediately. I'm guessing QT has something similar built-in once I can find it. I'll keep working on that. As far as I'm concerned, a check-box would be good enough, but I suppose that's not the most elegant way to do things if there's a way to auto-detect the language.