On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:11:47PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > > At Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:21:12 +0700, > Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > > > This may look awkward for the definition of 0x08 to move back > > inconsistently. But the situation can still be defined more gracefully > > if we allow the cursor to stop at each combining character, and moving > > left through a combined cell means moving through the combining > > characters one by one to the base character before advancing to previous > > cell. This implementation has been adopted by some locally-patched > > terminal emulator, such as xiterm+thai (available in debian sid). > > This idea is inconsistent with already existing softwares, where > cursor moves one column (half character) even when it moves across > doublewidth characters. There are also existing softwares which > treats combining characters in this way (against your idea). > > I think your idea can be implemented to be enabled only when some > option is specified. However, in future, I think one internationalized > software should work well for all people in the world. To achieve > this, terminal's behavior must be defined consistently. > > At least, definition of 0x08 must not be modified. In this case, > new control codes would be added for character-element-based > movement of your idea.
Yes, you're right. These new control codes will not compromise any requirement as in what I proposed. Another possibility is that bash or any other shells be modified so that they don't emit 0x08 in case of backspace upon combined cells. Hmm.. This may be more sound. -Thep. -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Thai Linux Working Group (TLWG) http://linux.thai.net/thep/ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
