Re: Adding Bidi to Fvwm ?

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Behdad Esfahbod <behdad bamdad org> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:

[snip snip]

> >   % echo "SHALOM, fvwm (SHALOM is hi in IVRIT!)." | fribidi -C CapRTL
> >                                  .(!IVRIT is hi in MOLAHS) fvwm ,MOLAHS
> >   % echo "hi 1-2 (english) is SHALOM 1-2 (IVRIT)." | fribidi -C CapRTL
> >   hi 1-2 (english) is IVRIT) 2-1 MOLAHS).
> >   # the second example seems like a bug in my fribidi, but maybe not
> 
> This is not a bug in fribidi, but a bug in the Unicode BiDi 
> Algorithm, fribidi is just doing its job right.

Sounds like someone intimately involved with the Bidi libraries should
bring this up to the unicode folk for review so as to modify unicode's
underlying algorithm and requirements, no ?

 - Nadim


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