Nadim Shaikli wrote on 2002-02-28 23:48 UTC: > What are your comments on mlterm, patch27, biditext (have you used 'em) ?
Can you send me a compact exact specification of the exact bidi semantics of these implementations? I haven't seen one yet and I don't have the time to reverse engineer these. If "cat" works, this means nothing, as this just tests what the terminal does when you send paragraphs with CRLF terminated lines to it and the cursor is at the bottom of the screen. This tests only the most trivial case of bidi functionality. I am far more worried about the sort of ESC sequences that vim, readline, and ncurses use to talk to the terminal and how they interact with the bidi. What does it mean to delete a character in bidi mode (in which direction does it move and what happens if it hits a bidi boundary), etc. Will it work with the tty cooked mode? Forget about cat, think about editors, starting from the most primitive ones. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
