Re: xterm & bidi (was - putt...)

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

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> --- Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu> wrote:
> >
> [snip snip]
> >
> > FriBidi is LGPLed, which means you can easily link to it without
> > any headache.  That's what xterm already does!  Yes, xterm has
> > bidi extensions that uses FriBidi.
>
> xterm and bidi ?  Did I hear that right ?  If so, where/what/how ;-)
> I looked over the Changelog on xterm and didn't see anything that
> stood out,
>
>   http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.log.html
>
> I know xterm does UTF-8 and that its author is willing to look into
> including Bidi, I just didn't know it was actually happening; do please
> shed some light on this (URLs, instructions, etc).
>
> Salam.
>
>  - Nadim

Well, it was done by Robert Brady and never found its way in.
BTW, here is the deprecated page:

http://www.farsiweb.info/howto/xterm/

behdad