[cp-patches] FYi: Implement (naive) Bidi.requiresBidi() workaround

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

This one method was needed for some eclipse plugin (SWT seems to do all
other bidirectional stuff internally). Sven came up with the suggestion
to just use Character.getDirectionality() for it:

2005-12-23  Mark Wielaard  <address@hidden>

        Implement workaround suggested in bug #25430.
        * java/text/Bidi.java: New file.

This doesn't close the bug of course. But now we do have some more
documentation how to go forward.

Committed,

Mark

/* Bidi.java -- Bidirectional Algorithm implementation
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package java.text;

/**
 * Bidirectional Algorithm implementation.
 *
 * TODO/FIXME Only one method <code>requiresBidi</code> is implemented
 * for now by using <code>Character</code>. The full algorithm is <a
 * href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/";>Unicode Standard
 * Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm</a>. A ful implementation is
 * <a href="http://fribidi.org/";>GNU FriBidi</a>.
 */
public class Bidi
{
  /**
   * Returns false if all characters in the text between start and end
   * are all left-to-right text.  WARNING, this implementation is
   * slow, it calls <code>Character.getDirectionality(char)</code> on
   * all characters.
   */
  public static boolean requiresBidi(char[] text, int start, int end)
  {
    final int LEFT_TO_RIGHT = Character.DIRECTIONALITY_LEFT_TO_RIGHT;
    for (int i = start; i < end; i++)
      {
        char c = text[i];
        if (Character.getDirectionality(c) != LEFT_TO_RIGHT)
          return true;
      }

    return false;
  }
}

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