On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, ahmad khalifa wrote: > > New putty with Bidi available here: > http://www.toomuchcookies.net/~arabeyes/putty7.exe > > i have a few questions about Bidi in general and then i'll get to PuTTY. > > + Can i use the Refrence Code avalable in UAX #9 at (i already did)
As far as I know, no, you can't. Do you think I would have written fribidi if one could simply use that code? Moreover, that code does not handle Unicode. Just ASCII, as you said yourself. > http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ > the code is at > http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/BidiReferenceCpp > it says it can be “Distributed Freely”? At the top of bidi_c.txt > Are there any license issues or anything i should > know of.? I'll give credits and all... I recommend you drop it as soon as possible. That's like the Java source code. Just reference. > + Is it good ? It seems to work for me.. > I had to modify the Type table (i.e that has character types, like L, R > AL, CS, etc..) > and added another table for arabic. No. It does not support Unicode. > + If i can use the code, can someone who knows Bidi better than me, check > the code to > see if my changes are sufficient to handle all arabic and english chars > (i.e check the > Type Tables at least).? The patch is not yet available. Apart from this issue, I have serious problems with this approach of passing every line to bidi.... But I don't open my mouth now. That's what you are doing, good or bad. I just said that because unlike what people usually think, a wrong implementation *can* hurt the global movement. behdad _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
