On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 04:19:19PM +0300, Sulaiman Mustafa wrote: > > I don't think that's possible. Why do you need to detect that ? > > I want to detect it so that I can mitigate arabic issues > programmatically by manually printing characters from right to left. I > know I'm fixing the side effects of this problem and not the problem > itself. And, of course, this can be easly switched off if the user needs to.
I guess your best option would be printing the characters from left to right and give the user the option of activating the "RTL mode". > As for fixing the problem, pushing for a termcap or terminfo entry is > definitely the way to go. However, at this stage, I'd be happy with > just a good old-fashioned [reliable] environment variable that > indicates it. > > The most important thing is that we should all agree on it. No use > defining a stranded if no one follows it ;) > All this would not fix your immediate problem unfortunately, It'd be nice to have though. -- GPG-Key: 0xA3FD0DF7 - 9F73 032E EAC9 F7AD 951F 280E CB66 8E29 A3FD 0DF7 Debian User and Developer. Homepage: www.foolab.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
