Re: Status of bidi-xterm ?

[Robert Brady <rwb197@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Aug 2001 19:12:11 +0200, Karl Koehler wrote:

> I'd like to ask if anybody has been working on bidi-xterm since 
> Robert Brady's xterm-152-27 patch, especially if it has been 
> updated to xterm-157.

No. (Well, there is a half-completed port on my hard disk...) Thanks for
the prod, I'll get onto this.

> In any case, color is broken in combination with bidi; the
> appended patch ( against xterm-152-27 ) fixes this for 16-color 
> mode.

Thanks.

> Another problem with this bidi-approach surfaces with programs
> like w3m-m17n which arrange text of tables in columns.
> Of course, one could say that programs more sophisticated than
> "cat" should do their own bidi, but in most cases, the choice
> of RTL as base direction would fix that; so I suggest adding
> this option to the menu.

Ah, yes. I did plan for this (and indeed even did some work on it), but it
turns out to be very problematic, nowhere near as simple as just changing
the constant in the call to fribidi.

-- 
Robert

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