Re: [I18n]mlterm with BiDi support
Hi,
At Mon, 24 Dec 2001 08:30:20 +0200 (IST),
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> So for me bidi support should be added, as long as there is an easy way to
> disable it on *runtime* (not just on the command-line).
Thank you for your comment. Mlterm satisfies this point, like Robert
Brady's XTerm patch.
Note that BiDi support is available only in UTF-8 mode. This is partly
because we don't know any BiDi-needed encodings other than UTF-8.
> What is the overhead of bidi support? Any reason someone might not want it
> because of that overhead?
I am using mlterm with Celeron 300MHz and I don't feel any overhead.
> Other than that, it will only matter for people who run into RTL text. And
> those people will probably want it on by-default.
Thank you. I was afraid that native Hebrew/Arab speakers are starting
to use BiDi application softwares which are assumed to be run on
non-BiDi-supporting terminals or they use display-order text file.
I'd like also to ask native Arab speakers on this point. Note that
mlterm supports Arab shaping also. Any comments?
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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