> From: Egmont Koblinger <egm...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:28:27 +0100 > Cc: Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>, unicode@unicode.org > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:10 PM Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > I think the application could use TAB characters to get to the next > > cell, then simplistic reordering would also work. > > TAB handling is extremely complicated, because in terminal emulation > TAB is not a character, TAB is a control instruction (like escape > sequences) that moves the cursor (and jumps through the existing > content, if any, without erasing it).
The reordering happens before TABs are converted to cursor motion, does it not? If so, their effect on reordering, by virtue of the TAB being Segment Separator for the UBA purposes, could happen nonetheless. Right?
