MK> <POLITICAL_CORRECTNESS OFF; DIPLOMATIC_SENSITIVITY OFF>
You asked for it ;-)
MK> In my honest opinion, RTL writing has no place in the computer
MK> age.
I think you're putting the issue in the wrong terms.
It is possible to write German, French or Polish using ASCII only;
heck, to a certain extent, al-`arabiyya aiDan. The fact is, however,
that ASCII-only rendering of these languages is not culturally
acceptable, which is why we're interested in implementing support for
beautiful e-ogonek and ugly u-umlaut.
(Offtopic: who is responsible for the positioning of the ogonek in
a-ogonek in the XFree86 fonts? Could you get it moved to a more
reasonable place?)
Like it or not, RtL is essential for acceptable support of a number of
important languages. The question is not whether to implement RtL,
but at what level it should be implemented.
I agree with you, though, that nobody has presented a satisfactory
semantics for BIDI support at the terminal emulator level. On the
other hand, there is a clear semantics for BIDI support at the curses
level. The only conclusion is that the people interested in BIDI
should start with implementing it in ncurses, slang and Emacs; then
may (or may not) be the time to think about the ocmmand-line.
Regards,
Juliusz
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