Hi, At Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:59:48 +0200 (IST), Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> I believe that we all agree that a bidi terminal will solve the problems > of command-line programs. However full-screen programs may do more > complicated manipulations of the text. > > Consider the following: > > ONE RTL SENTENCE AND ANOTHER RTL SENTENCE > IN A "TEXT BOX" IN A SEPERATE BOX > > A simple bidi terminal would get this thing wrong (if you stuff in some > LTR chars, at least) because it will mix the texts of the two boxes. > > The progrm that draws this has to know about the existance of the > separate boxes. > > As I said before, a simple bidi terminal is on many times still a good > approximation of the behaviour that the user wants even in such complex > cases. This problem can be solved with a control code to disable (and then re-enable) BiDi support of the terminal, as Behdad said. Are there any such control codes standardized? (Sorry, I am not a main developer of mlterm and I don't know whether mlterm supports the codes even if there are any.) Shaul Karl wrote: >> Otherwise, since a little part of people in the world need BiDi > > As far as I know there are at least 500,000,000 people whose native > language uses BiDi. And by that I assume that most Muslims native > language use BiDi. I am aware to the fact that there are many Muslims > in places were the native language is LTR (probably east-southern Europe > and Turkey) who only use a BiDi language (Arabic) when they are > discussing the Islam in its original language. There are at least 1,000,000,000 people whose native language uses Han Ideogram. I am one of them. Indic language spekers are also a large group. However, in the Open Source Software world, most of developers don't think about supporting such languages. Even with such huge popularity of BiDi + CJK + Indic + ... , we are still a minority in Open Source World. Thus we have to improve our situation by ourselves. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n