On Saturday 10 April 2004 07:23 am, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Do you mean with Arabic (translated) man? Or the English one > doesn't work? The English one. > > 1. It shows only in half of the screen > > 2. Enter doens't work. It should scroll one line down. > > Same question as above. Again the English one > > 3. the phrase "line 1-27" comes in the middle of the screen with text > > below it 4. vim display INSERT also half the way on screen > > 5. cat'ing any arabic filename will work with shaping but upon typing > > Arabic if I pressed BACKSPACE to delete a letter and type again, it will > > appear in the wrong position > Well, that's kind of a thing that is not going to be fixed in > BiCon any soon :(. Right now BiCon is only a very thin layer > doing bidi on the *stream* coming to terminal. Some of the > things you wrote can be supported, but some other ones simply > cannot, at least without application support. Of course an > approach like what they are doing in PuTTY will solve many of > these problems, but will create its own problems. Let's see what can be fixed. > BiCon better be used for simple cmd-line stuff that does not do > escape-sequence tricks. Well, it's there as a final resort. If > you really need to be able to read Arabic on console, use it... Escape-sequence tricks? Do you mean pressing BACKSPACE to delete a text when typing in console is an escape-sequence trick? > > I turned to console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), loged in, bicon > > I tried Left alt+shift and tried to type the letter "e" I got a strange > > question mark. alt+shift again or anything i tried won't allow me to type > > "e". Hence, I couldn't type "exit" to exit and stuck there. Once stucked, > > I tried vim from console, typing "e" gave me the euro sign. Now, I can't > > type ":" to exit. It doesn't work. Ctrl+z got me out of vim. I tried > > Alt+F7 to return to GUI but no use. Sequential Ctrl+D's loged me out and > > now Alt+F7 back to GUI. Sigh! I decided not to return to that frightening > > blackhole until it's fixed. > > This one's really weird. You only entered "bicon"? What was > your $LANG? Better I turn off keymap setting for console too. > You can ask for keymap explicitly by saying "bicon ir" or I tried to call it bicon ar and the same problems exist. Swiching my $LANG to ar, en, ar_SA, ar_SA.UTF-8 gives the same problems also. > something like that. BTW, wait a couple of days and I will make > another release and please test again. Surely. > > I am using Mandrake 10 > > Well, never used Mandrake. But it may be that they do their own > tricks on console. I think I forgot to tell you that I can't even see arabic letters from console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) though I can via gnome-terminal. -- __/ __/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _\ _/ _\ _/ _/ \ / _\ unzir _/ aha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of Mandrake Arabization Project Status http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distro/mdkarabicsupport.html CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
