bidi on the console

[Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>]

Andries Brouwer writes:

> Each of these is set by some escape sequence.
> A reset uses D1 to set the direction.
> ...
> The code is only a handful of lines, a very simple change.

Is the Unicode BiDi algorithm http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/
implementable in the kernel, or is it overkill? Its advantage seems to be
that it needs no escape sequences.

Bruno
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