Re: BSD license problem of BiCon was non-issue

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, ahmad khalifa wrote:
> >Ok Ok.  Too bad you are coding for windows, which means you only
> >support BMP.  BTW, please don't use RLE as that acronym, since it
> >means something else here.
>
> whats BMP ? sorry about "RLE", "run length encoding" is boring.

BMP stands for the "Basic Multilingual Plane" and is the Unicode
entries below 0x10000.  Yes, there are lots of Unicode characters
with codes >= 0x10000.

> >I'm not sure if you are interested in it at all.  I have a test
> >case in FriBidi for that.  The long test case IIRC.
>
> do u mean the files in fribidi's source /test ???

Yes, I think so.

> >I read in code the other time that you change WS to ON for the
> >time.  Is it fixed?  BTW, try a sequence like this:
>
> WS is changed to ON, until the rules at the end where the types are
> retreived from the original text string. just like the refrence code.
> isnt that what u do ?

No, we never looked at reference impl. ;).

> >R EN ET NSM EN.
> >
> >[probably you get it right.]
>
> unfortunately, putty drops all NSMs before they get to bidi.
> so i havent tested NSMs. or at least thats what i think...

Ok, so .. ;)

> u know, i kinda think i should give this thing more attention. :)
>
> ak.

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