Notepad++ 7.8 Release

[geminorum]

@geminorum said in Notepad++ 7.8 Release:

maybe I’m wrong, but seems to me that the RTL layout is NPP feature.

the order of words are reversed in NPP:

then again is correct on SciTE:

the raw text:

سیر خیال هستی رنگ فضولیی داشت
از خجلت جدایی یاد عدم نکردم

also, the wrong selection of unicode strings is also appears on SciTE.

[geminorum]

@PeterJones said in Notepad++ 7.8 Release:

@geminorum,

Sorry, I’m not a SciTE expert. It might be in the Options rather than the View.

checked all the menus. maybe it’s on SciTE config file.

[geminorum]

@geminorum said in Notepad++ 7.8 Release:

also, the wrong selection of unicode strings is also appears on SciTE.

https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/757/

[geminorum]

@geminorum said in Notepad++ 7.8 Release:

maybe I’m wrong, but seems to me that the RTL layout is NPP feature.

according to this, SciTE does not support RTL or Bidi.

[Diz Q]

hi all. i have not posted before but since i think i have the solution i thought i should jump in.

@geminorum i see from your plugins screenshot you have the jN scripting plugin (and maybe other scripting plugins that i cant see) installed. if i can first of all point you to the relevant part of the scintilla docs at https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETTECHNOLOGY
so im assuming you (or some other script you maybe dont know about) have changed the rendering technology away from the default 0 setting. i do the same because i think it looks better (in ltr english of course!). anyway this is your problem as i can reproduce exactly the results you describe. set this setting back to 0 (default) will fix your issue, or at least it did for me!

[geminorum]

@Diz-Q said in Notepad++ 7.8 Release:

i see from your plugins screenshot you have the jN scripting plugin (and maybe other scripting plugins that i cant see) installed.

I have multiple instances of NPP with and without jN, and actually not using any scripts. (just installed to use my own js lib on NPP which was a failure.)

we were talking about multiple issues:

• problem on RTL layout switch: caused by a plugin: DSpellCheck x64 v1.4.15
• problem with reversed order of words on unicode strings: appears on NPP, no problem on SciTE.
• problem with reversed left/right arrow key in RTL: very old one, since I remember using NPP. multiple reported issues on github and almost every time, dismissed as Scintilla’s. (which apperanlty caused by NPP, because Scintilla has no support for RTL layout.)
• problem with unicode text selection on LTR and RTL, that appears on both SciTE and NPP. with multiple reported issues on github.

set this setting back to 0 (default) will fix your issue, or at least it did for me!

the SciTE that I used for test, has no config file, supposedly with default settings. but I will try the config once I can figure out how to set them in SciTE.

and thank you for your input.

[geminorum]

@geminorum said in Notepad++ 7.8 Release:

• problem with unicode text selection on LTR and RTL, that appears on both SciTE and NPP.

correction: the problem is only on LTR layout (both NPP and SciTE). on NPP in RTL is working fine.

[Diz Q]

@geminorum yeah, sorry, i wasnt clear. i was talking specifically about the rtl switch issue not the others. somehow i guess i missed the post where you said dspellcheck was the culprit so i didnt know you had fixed it at the time. maybe just a coincidence that i had replicated the exact issue as you described with a different plugin that you also happened to have installed… so weird!

[Diz Q]

even weirder still, the dspellcheck plugin does NOT cause that issue at my end!

[Madeleine Rahimz]

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