Arabic bidirectionality in Tkinter

[Martin v. Loewis]

zayats at blue.seas.upenn.edu (Salim Zayat) writes:

> Qt deals with this bidirectionality automatically, but Tkinter doesnt 
> appear to.  What can I do?

It appears that there are a few BIDI widgets for Tk out there, for
example

http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/taved.html
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/R2L/

Both are for Hebrew; I don't know how useful they are for Arabic.

If they won't work, your options are obvious:

- Fix Tk to implement BIDI support in the widgets (perhaps using
  FriBidi).
- use another widget kit.

Regards,
Martin