Re: RTL in curses

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

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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