On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Anmar Oueja wrote: > I somewhat agree with you but I feel OpenSource and Linux has always and > will always about choice. I feel Xterm should have fribidi linked to it > so it can be either activated on launch or a compile option just like > the u8 options for unicode support. As for standards,Fribidi is the > standard which mlterm, bicon use.
But FriBidi is only an implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. That thing does not say any word about terminals... They are already over-complicated withought bidi :(. > >>- Xfonts should have a complete set of Arabic letters in their fonts > >>(nadim, I think you are the one to give us specifics on this matter) > > > > The authority for many X fonts has been Markus Kuhn, that has > > included Arabic glyphs in some of his fonts, thanks to Roozbeh. > > The old 10x20 bitmap font is one of them. But the problem that > > they are not typically included in distributions is a technical > > problem with the X protocol which drastically slows down remote > > clients with fonts including Unicode characters with large code > > points (like Arabic presentation forms). > > > When you say technincal problem, you mean a problem with the > architecture or it is something that can be fixed by updating some code > (not a major architectural change). You better ask on linux-utf8 for the state of the day. My information is from 2001, if not 2000! > Thanks for your feedback behdad :) NP :) > anmar --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
