Re: Bidi paragraph direction in terminal emulators

[Asmus Freytag via Unicode]

On 2/9/2019 12:07 PM, Egmont Koblinger via Unicode wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 9:01 PM Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: then what you say is that some scripts can never be supported by text terminals. I'm not familiar at all with all the scripts and their requirements, but yes, basically this is what I'm saying. I'm afraid some scripts can never be perfectly supported by text terminals. This includes the scripts used for up to four of the world's top ten languages. And it's more than "not perfect"; effectively some scripts cannot be shoehorned into the fundamental design. That design was created to work with European scripts, and proved somewhat adaptable to other scripts that lend themselves to fixed-width cell display. But beyond that is where you hit the proverbial brick wall. I hope though that all the scripts can be supported with more or less compromises, e.g. like it would appear in a crossword. But maybe not. See other messages: not. Maybe one day some new, modern platform will arise with the goal of replacing terminal emulators, which I wouldn't necessarily mind. It's gonna take an enormous amount of work, though. A./