Re: VIM-6 - rightleft redisplay

["David Harrison Jr." <david at motionrealityinc dot com>]

Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> Numbers aside (and we can live with them not being processed correctly
> until Bidi is adopted).  The question still stands on how to modify the
> above noted logic/code to redisplay the characters in "rightleft" mode.

Agreed.  Now that I'm thinking about these things, I wonder if certain 
Asian texts need to be displayed vertically? (topbottom mode?)

> > Unfortunately, I'm not that familiar with the code to offer a solution 
> > (I need to see Arabic examples.... lots of them).
>
> Well, I would suggest downloading our work-in-progress code,
>
>   http://www.arabeyes.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/arabeyes/vim
> -or-
>   http://www.arabeyes.org/~nadim/vim/vim-shaping.tar.gz


Ok.  I've used it awhile now.  Lots of screen refresh problems when you 
are in an ISO-8859-x type of setup.

The Arabic input is interesting.  I press 'q','w' which show a slightly 
different set of characters than typing 'q', ' ', 'w'.  I press CTRL-L 
and the "combined" 'q''w' sequence is indeed drawn differently.

Hmmm,  I'll take a closer look...

--David H. Jr.