bidi terminal (was Re: [I18n]Re: Thai XIM)

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:

> I hope that mlterm also takes into considerations the RTL (Right To 
> Left) languages. As far as I know these are Hebrew and Arabic.
> Actually, BiDi (Bi Directional) might be more suitable then RTL in this 
> context since users of these languages do expect to be able to combine 
> the other direction too. And by that I mean have Hebrew/Arabic text 
> combined with other languages text.

The point is that there is no consensus on such a terminal's behaviour in
non-trivial cases.

roozbeh