Re: putty can shape now..

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

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, ahmad khalifa wrote:

>
>
> >On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 03:13, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > CP-1256 should not be used in any stage in any software anymore.
> > > A single-byte encoding for Unicode is already available.  It's
> > > called UTF-8.
> > >
> >
> >I disagree. Well, if we lived in an idealistic world, perhaps. However,
> >and especially when it comes to PuTTY, I think it is rather important to
> >have CP-1256 support at some point.
>
> well, the code i sent works on converting Unicode to
> CP-1256 in order to give it to the Display function only...
> my code does nothing to any encoding handling... only
> when its arabic unicode it translates and sends to the
> display function, the rest is in unicode....

As I said in another mail, this way you lose some Arabic
characters that are NOT in CP-1256.

behdad