Re: rtl hacks worth checking

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at bamdad dot org>]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Chahine M. Hamila wrote:

> I received these links and proposal from Tzafrir Cohen.
> I think it might be interesting for us. Anyone could test this stuff and
> send a detailed report about the journey on the arabeyes list?
>
>
> > we are currently doing some work with biditext:
> >
> > http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/cache/129.html
> > http://linuxclub.il.eu.org/R2L/
> >
> > One thing that is currently missing is support for arabic codepages. Since
> > we don't know exactly how to test this, we decided we'll wait for an
> > arabic reader to add this.
> >
> > Any takers?

biditext is our (Roozbeh and I) todo list, but we are going to add
arabic shaping for utf8, not any other codepages/charsets.

Yours,
-- 
Behdad
27 Mordad 1380, 2001 Aug 18

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