Re: [putty]RE: putty and new .exe

[Owen Dunn <owend at chiark dot greenend dot org dot uk>]

"ahmad khalifa" <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com> writes:
 
> Simon: about the ligature issue, we need your opinion. i have implemented
> the following method
> 
> - during the shaping, if a ligature is found, its written to the first
> char and
> 
>   the rest are shifted 1 position toward the left. this causes right aligned
>    paragraphs to look a bit strange. i.e right-aligned lines with 2
> ligatures start
> 
>    2 positions late.
> 
> a better approach is:
> - the Bidi function would return a value indicating paragraph level,
>   which is the paragraph's alignment, wether right or left. then the
>   shaping function would shift all characters after each ligatures in the
>   direction of the paragraph.

This is the wrong answer.  The right answer is to extend PuTTY's
terminal emulator to support Unicode combining characters and
ligatures, but as we've said before, that will require serious work
from Simon.

(S)