On 26 Feb 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > - some people produced analogies with luit, which to me seems to > imply a lack of understanding of what luit does (luit has *no* notion > of cursor position). Unless I'm missing something, BiDi really > needs access to internal terminal emulator data.
I admit that I don't really know how luit work. I assume that it basically works as an "output filter. In this case the following program should give you a similar behaviour to "bidi luit": http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/R2L/ (requires fribidi) Try to build it, and run: biditext xterm >From my experince it is a bit worse than xterm/patch27 . Both produce generally the same result when not editing text, but patch27 generally allows you to edit the shell command-line (IIRC!) and some basic editing in a full-screen program like pine (with biditext xterm I have to resort to alternative editing methods and disabling of bidi faster and/or in more cases) (Technically biditext works by applying fribidi on the text of every call to XDrawString. I believe that the result is basically an "output filter" in the case of a terminal emulator". Note that this approach iss quite hackish, and may not apply to other cases) -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
