Re: PuTTY Testing

["ahmad khalifa" <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com>]

> From: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>

> Here are a few things I've encountered that I think should be fixed
> before we push for the patch's adoption.
>
>  1. Do some repetitive 'ls -lF' and 'clear', putty crashed on me a
>     number of times (there might be a memory leak somewhere).

did u try that in an ordinary putty (without my patch) ??
i'll try to reproduce that crash.

>  2. If you view that favorite test file 'ar_utf8' there is a string
>     in there that notes, "Here are some Random words:" for whatever
>     reason the ":" dances around and changes location.  'cat' the
>     file (or less it) and then scroll back to that line (towards
>     the top to see what I mean).

hmm, you're really good at finding these things. maybe u shouldnt
be testing PuTTY. :)))

>      http://arabeyes.org/~nadim/ar_utf8
>
>     BTW: that line is not shown correctly (ie. I don't think Bidi
>          is doing the right thing there.

u know im a windows person, so on my Win2k, both Internet Explorer
and Netscape do some really strange Bidi on the ar_utf8 file. i think
my code does a much better job... so anyway, i dont know the exact
display of the line, would anyone _spell out_ the exact display of that
line ? because my IE and NS show some strange stuff...

>  3. The LAM+ALEF which gets combined into a LAA still exhibits a
>     space after it.  That space should really be visually gone.

i could shift the rest of the line to override the space, but will this be
OK with the cursor and stuff?

>  4. Do please add 2 buttons in Terminal->Features that notes,
>     a. Disable Shaping
>     b. Disable Bidi

OK. but i'll keep them in a separate patch for now. just to be safe.

> > anyway, i tested it and seem to get 100% Bidi Compliance,
> > anyone care to correct me ?
>
> The visual look of raw data looks semi-clean (note above).
> I think once things are settled looking into Control-Characters
> will be warranted in order to properly place cursors and/or string
> search boxes, etc (that's for much later on).

i did run the tests, didnt u see the screen shots ??  i only added
mirroring code to it after the screen shots...

btw: i really hate the mirroring function, any hints there.?

btw2: i wrote those 2 small C programs to convert from
UnicodeData.txt into a big C array of character types. and another
one to write a very biig switch for mirroring.

i.e
1. takes UnicodeData.txt and outputs a file with lines like this...
/* 0000 */ ON, ON, L, R, NSM, RLE, RLE, NSM,
2. takes the mirroring file and outputs the following 2 lines for each entry
case 0028:
   *ch = 0029;
   break;

ak.

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