M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Most likely yes, but they would not render RTL text by first > switching the direction and then printing them LTR again. > > Please also note that switching from LTR to RTL and back again > is possible within a Unicode string, so applying str.reverse() > would actually make things worse and not better :-) > > Processing in Unicode is always left to right, even if the resulting > text may actually be rendered right to left or top to bottom.
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ > https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-scripts Your reminder of the difficulties in Unicode, and the URLs are much appreciated. In particular, the keyword 'while' in Arabic should be written Left-To-Right, even though the ambient text is Left-To-Right. I've found these URLs, which suggests that there's a still a problem to be solved. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fix-rtl-right-left-support-persian-arabic-text-ubuntu-ghorbani/ https://askubuntu.com/questions/983480/showing-text-file-content-right-to-left-in-the-terminal https://github.com/behdad/bicon My understanding is that at present it's not straightforward to provide legible localised text at the Python console, when the locale language is Arabic, Persian, Hebrew or Urdu. (And another problem is allow copy and paste of such text.) If it is straightforward to provide RTL localisation at the Python interpreter, I'd very much appreciate being pointed to such a solution. -- Jonathan _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
