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Re: [Kinda-OT] Re: Arabic support



On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:40:34AM EDT, steVe wrote:
> so spake David Yitzchak Cohen [2004.06.05 @ 21:14]:

> > Your extent of observed Arabic/Hebrew support (using either the ISO-8859-x
> > charsets or UTF-8) will depend mostly on your terminal's bidi support.
> > I have to read all my Hebrew emails backwards (since Linux VTs lack
> > bidi), but the letters themselves come out just fine.  If you have a
> 
> i've heard mlterm supports bidi, although i've had no experience with
> it.
> 
> http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/README

There are a number of terminal emulators for X that support bidi (via
the fribidi engine, I think all except one based on Gecko or something),
but I know of none for the framebuffer.  (Sorry, I hate X.)

 - Dave

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