From: Nadim Shaikli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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