> I just pulled down the 7.14 BiDi build from Tom's site and tried it 
> out on my Win2K machine with Hebrew & Arabic support installed - 
> unfortunately, it doesn't appear to work in NUMEROUS ways :(.
> 
> * Not all fonts are listed in our font selector (especially the 
> non-Roman ones).
> * No way to enable/disable "bidi" support as there is in the Unix build
> * Copy/Paste from Word results in a mess.
> 
> And that was when I just gave up...
> 
> Is it me, or has no one previously tested the BiDi features on Windows?
There is a number of Windows-specific issues that need to be dealt 
with, but there has been no-one interested in working on the BiDi 
stuff on Windows so far  -- there have been very few people 
interested in the BiDi stuff fullstop :(. Until such a person is found ...

Tomas

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