On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Robert Brady wrote:
> Yeah. But what in the case
>
> " A"
> " AB"
> " AB[control-sequence-to-go-somewhere-else-entirely]"
>
> The B wants to end up (term), right? What if then we go back to after the
> B and put a C there. Does the B change back to medial?
>
> " AB[control-sequence-to-make-it-red]CD "
> wants to have Ainit, Bmed, red Cmed, Dterm.
I was talking about the Arabic-aware editor, not the terminal emulator. In
a terminal emulater, I also prefer the most simple and most robust
solution. But I really like things like "cat" to be able to output Arabic.
> Is is even worthwhile to think about doing the shaping before having bidi?
I see no important difference. I think this is related to the environment,
the programmer preferences, ...
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