On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, 18:39 Egmont Koblinger via Unicode <[email protected] wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 2:57 AM Richard Wordingham via Unicode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Which side do you align RTL cells on? > > It's out of the scope of my docs. > > In the current work-in-progress implementation I align them to the > left, but there's a TODO entry to align them to the right instead (or > maybe center all the glyphs). > For all the willingness to come up with ways to modernise the terminal, you've only spoken about trying to showhorn rtl text in to the vt102 basic terminal. What I mean is that f you're willing to go as far as introducing new escape codes to allow applications to better control the behaviour of this one feature, why do you stop there? Why still limit yourself to the bonds of vt102? Once you take that first step towards the new control codes, why not simply come up with a new scheme? Why not let me do: TERM=newfancything And then I'd have a system that supports everything I need: variable with fonts, proper rtl text, pixel-precise character positioning, all the colours, inline graphics, etc. There is nothing magic about the grid of cells, and once you introduce new escape sequences, you might as well truly modernise the terminal. Regards, Elias >
