Re: PuTTY testing (shaping)

[Omar Abo-Namous <merlin12345 at gmx dot de>]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 23:25:37 -0800 (PST), Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Omar Abo-Namous <merlin12345 at gmx dot de> wrote:
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Thank you Omar for finally appearing as a person :-)  Seriously -
> thanks.
>
>> For me it seems to work now, with all the force redraw thingie.
>> Why
>> does it delete the whole word though, when you want to delete the
>> last
>> character???
>
> This needs to be fixed, but this can wait a bit - a first order is
> to enable the display (shear display only) of files.  We'll also
> have
> to talk about harakat (fatha, damma, etc), but that's for later.
>
>> again my question: What is this arabic in putty for? There are no
>> commands you could pass on to a server in arabic, are there??
>
> :-) hehee.  Think about it this way.  You talk to a guy who knows
> nothing but windows and tell him to try linux/unix - the first thing
> he might consider is to login to a machine and 'cd' around (assuming
> the person is not a mouse-click-freak).  In order to give the Arab
> user the ability to actually see arabic content, PuTTY is gonna have
> to first and foremost support and assist in its display, etc.  In
> short, it is needed if you are stuck on windows and want to connect
> to a linux box and write/read/modify some Arabic content.
>

So that is: IN FILES, not on the shell / prompt whatever you call it??

Salam.


Omar







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>
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Omar Abo-Namous, merlin12345 at gmx dot de on 03.03.2004