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Bug 252645

Summary:	[plan] BIDI improvements
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	cgold, daniel_megert, eclipse.felipe, markus.kell.r, snorthov
Version:	3.5	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	3.5
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	243270
Bug Blocks:

Description John Arthorne

2008-10-29 15:38:04 EDT

We will continue to invest in improving in our BIDI support, to ensure that Eclipse is a first-class environment in BIDI locales. This work will include both improvemed access to native BIDI support and the better handling of dynamic, complex expressions within Eclipse. [SWT, Platform UI]

Comment 1 Felipe Heidrich

2009-01-19 14:42:31 EST

Hi John, we did many improvements in Bidi. The most important bug we fixed was Bug 236513.
Unfortunately, there is one important bidi bug still open:  bug 230854.
We did an extensive investigation for bug 230854 and at this point we don't have solution for it. It is likely it won't be fixed for 3.5.

For that reason, I don't think we can mark this plan item as fixed. On the other hand deferred doesn't feel right either. Not sure what to do. Steve?

Comment 2 Steve Northover

2009-01-21 16:35:16 EST

Provided that we have improved Bidi substantially (which we have), we can mark this bug fixed, but indicate that "dynamic, complex expressions within Eclipse" were not addressed.  This is my current thinking.

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2009-01-21 16:40:09 EST

Although it's not SWT, I have added bug 243270 as a related bug to this plan item since it enables support for configuring BIDI representation of calendars and dates.

Comment 4 Chris Goldthorpe

2009-01-26 14:41:40 EST

Another major BIDI problem which was fixed in Eclipse 3.5 is Bug 146237 – [Intro] TVT3.2:Welcome page layout problem. This also not an SWT bug.

Comment 5 John Arthorne

2009-09-03 15:10:00 EDT

This plan item was committed in the Galileo plan, so marking this bug fixed.