{"id":153,"date":"2009-06-11T13:04:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T02:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-06-11T13:04:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T02:04:26","slug":"why-i-will-be-upgrading-to-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"why i will be upgrading to snow leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there are a number of good reasons, but looking through the list of enhancements is this one long overdue feature:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bidirectional text.<\/strong><br \/>\nFor languages that are written right to left, such as Hebrew and Arabic, Snow Leopard now elegantly handles mixing in left-to-right text. It also has a split-cursor option that shows the appropriate cursor direction at the boundary between right-to-left and left-to-right text.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/refinements\/enhancements-refinements.html\">here<\/a>. Hopefully this means that inserting RTL text in the midst of LTR text also works, since there&#8217;s much room for improvement in the way Mac OS X handles that as well (Pages and Keynote simply do not handle putting Unicode Hebrew into your documets, fortunately we have Mellel to solve our problems).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there are a number of good reasons, but looking through the list of enhancements is this one long overdue feature: Bidirectional text. For languages that are written right to left, such as Hebrew and Arabic, Snow Leopard now elegantly handles mixing in left-to-right text. It also has a split-cursor option that shows the appropriate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-mellel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}