Re: rtl hacks worth checking

["Chahine M. Hamila" <mch at chaham dot com>]

Okay, what does biditext do exactly? Is there any exhaustive reference?

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> 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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