Nadim Shaikli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ahmad has written his own Bidi code (as is evident from Arabeyes' > CVS repository and the README file) to get this done.
Excellent! That neatly side-steps all licensing problems as well as ensuring that we don't have any excess baggage from an existing implementation. > A great deal of what is left requires expert PuTTY knowledge > (ie. Simon) so we tried to break things down into smaller pieces to > better focus on issues and to try to work out a reasonable schedule > (the patch, though, is ready to go and is ready for inclusion). > > http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/external/putty/ Thanks. That looks mostly sane from a first glance. I'll try to take a closer look this weekend, and doubtless Simon will at some point too. I suggest renaming your ExtTextOut() wrapper to something like raw_textout() rather than do_arabic_textout since it's called for everything and not just Arabic text. > - Fix visual space after combined character (LAM+ALEF -> LAA) > - Fix composing characters (fatha/damma/etc) These two are the same issue programmatically; they both require us to fix the terminal emulator to handle lines with more code points than character cells. > + Phase-3 (requires help/direction from Simon) > - Look into and properly handle Control/Escape sequences What do you mean by this? > - vim/emacs/etc should run properly within putty with Arabic You're going to have to help us on these; we have very little idea of what vim or emacs do with respect to Arabic or what PuTTY might need to do to assist this. > Do please note that even if none of the other phases are completed, > the patch as it stands now is EXTREMELY useful and should be included > ASAP. > > PS: with regards to be being busy, etc. Do please simply > let us know when to expect a reply from ya so we can > plan accordingly (and not keep bothering you :-) We should be able to say something more about the patch by next week. Thanks for all your hard work on this. (S) _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
