Re: XR11R6.7 and X.org release

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

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Anmar Oueja wrote:

> I somewhat agree with you but I feel OpenSource and Linux has always and
> will always about choice. I feel Xterm  should have fribidi linked to it
> so it can be either activated on launch or a compile option just like
> the u8 options for unicode support. As for standards,Fribidi is the
> standard which mlterm, bicon use.

But FriBidi is only an implementation of the Unicode
Bidirectional Algorithm.  That thing does not say any word about
terminals...  They are already over-complicated withought bidi
:(.

> >>- Xfonts should have a complete set of Arabic letters in their fonts
> >>(nadim, I think you are the one to give us specifics on this matter)
> >
> > The authority for many X fonts has been Markus Kuhn, that has
> > included Arabic glyphs in some of his fonts, thanks to Roozbeh.
> > The old 10x20 bitmap font is one of them.  But the problem that
> > they are not typically included in distributions is a technical
> > problem with the X protocol which drastically slows down remote
> > clients with fonts including Unicode characters with large code
> > points (like Arabic presentation forms).
> >
> When you say technincal problem, you mean a problem with the
> architecture or it is something that can be fixed by updating some code
> (not a major architectural change).

You better ask on linux-utf8 for the state of the day.  My
information is from 2001, if not 2000!

> Thanks for your feedback behdad :)

NP :)

> anmar

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