Bug#212962: What is being done to offer RTL, BIDI and Shaping support

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:30:22AM -0800, Anmar Oueja wrote:
> 1. Hack Newt for now to pipe all output through bidi and some custom 
> written shaping code (should be simple to do). this requires intimiate 
> knowlege of Newt and fribidi. Currently the .lb LUG is looking into it. 
> They might do it they might not. depending on their schedule. (will find 
> out later next week).

Might it be possible to accelerate this by doing the appropriate bidi stuff
at libtextwrap time? Almost all text passes through libtextwrap (AFAIK), but
I'm not sure what you need to do the actual `reversion'. :-)

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