Re: RTL in curses

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at bamdad dot org>]

Hi,

I'm still here :-).  In fact I'm still waiting for ncurses and 
slang to have their UTF-8 support done, to start implementing 
bidi.

Any news about them (ncurses and slang UTF-8 support)?

behdad


On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:19:43 +0300,
>   "Ahmad Alhashemi" <ahmad ikuwaiti com>
> > 
> > I've been reading around about the right-to-left projects and seen lots of
> > screenshots.
> > 
> > It seems that most of the RTL implementatins work on the terminal side, like
> > PuTTY. This might cause some trouble as new programs are developed everyday
> > with ideas not haveing RTL into account leading to broken screens. To solve
> > this problem I think curses and ncurses should be extended with more
> > features allowing the programs based on them to be more RTL aware. After
> > that we must advocate the usage of these extensions, so that developers all
> > over the world can take some measurements that will prevent RTL problems
> > from appearing at all.
> > 
> > Have anybody work on that before?
> 
> I believe Behdad (or was it Roozbeh) were looking along those lines
> (if memory serves - it was noted in passing on one of the xfree86 lists).
> Since both are on the list (I hope ;-) you might want to coordinate
> with them (certainly keep the discussion here so we could all learn
> something :-).  I'm not sure that much had been accomplished in that
> area (and its a great place to get into - its one of those fundamental
> places that opens many doors all at once), but I do remember a mention
> that it was being looking into it due to interest and curiosity.
> 
> Not much help (I know :-), but its a start -- welcome aboard.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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