0001163: Problems with character sets that are right to left

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0001163	MMW v4	Properties/Auto-Tools	public	2004-03-19 05:26	2019-02-21 20:02

Reporter	rusty	Assigned To
Priority	low	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open

Summary	0001163: Problems with character sets that are right to left
Description	I tested MM using hebrew tags and it worked nicely, however, when it comes time to edit a property (either in-place in the main panel, or via the properties dialog), MM has some serious problems: -when a property is truncated visually because it cannot fit in the allotted space, the '...' appears on the right side of the text rather than the left. -if the user tries to edit text in-place when the text is truncated (because the column is narrow), the cursor cannot be moved to the rightmost portion of the text. The furthest right that it can move is to the rightmost letter that is visible. -if the user selects a portion of the text (in the tracklist or the properties panel) the selected text is on the opposite side of what the user selected. e.g. for XXXYYY if the user selected XXX, then when the XXX text is highlighted, it appears as YYY!! very weird... -i'm not sure what happens if the user tries to edit the text since I don't know how to get hebrew characters to appear. My guess, though, is that the characters would appear left to right instead of right to left.
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Fixed in build

jiri 2004-03-19 16:04 administrator ~0003474	I would defer the fix to later time (at least after 2.2) given the complexity and risk that standard functionality would be affected. Btw, I think that the skinless MM version could work better, because standard Windows edit controls are used there.

rusty 2004-03-21 02:52 administrator ~0003480	fyi, when MM is used in skinless mode, this problem is partially resolved: the editing problems go away, however the '...' still appears on the wrong side. I've documented this problem/workaround in the readme.

rusty 2006-07-11 16:34 administrator ~0007434	Other problems occur when defining masks for a rip of a Hebrew CD: /My Music/<Album Artist>/<Artist>-<Title> -->/My Music/Artist-Title/Album Artist.mp3 i.e. although masks are entered left to right, when the text is in hebrew, they appear from Right to left.