On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:19:44 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <[email protected]> said: > On 07/23/2012 16:26, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:20:43 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <[email protected]> said: >>> On 07/23/2012 13:39, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: >>>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:32:34 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <[email protected]> >>>> said: >>>>> Arabic, which is finally displayed from right-to-left, works in >>>>> windowed mode, but for me, it does not work correctly with "-nw": >>>>> While it is displayed correctly in a LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Konsole (KDE >>>>> terminal), the order of the letters is changed just by moving the >>>>> cursor through Arabic text. I do not think this is a problem with the >>>>> port, but either with my setup or with emacs-24.1 in general. >>>> >>>> Did you try other terminal, like mrxvt ? I think it's problem with >>>> terminal, >>>> and not Emacs, but I might be wrong. >> >>> mrxvt and mrxvt-devel both do not display utf-8 at all. I tried >>> rxvt-unicode: While only some of the Arabic characters where displayed >>> correctly, the cursor was moving properly and it did not reorder the >>> characters. Emacs and the Emacs port seem to be fine. Finding and >>> setting up a terminal that works properly with Arabic seems to be the >>> problem. >> >> Sorry, I was talking about mlterm[1].
> Just for the record: x11/mlterm WITH_FRIBIDI does correct editing of > Arabic in a shell and in "emacs -nw". Otherwise, "emacs -nw" does not > work very well in mlterm: Backspace does not work, while it works > outside Emacs, and combinations using the <Alt> key do not work, but > they work properly in both konsole and rxvt-unicode. > Anyhow, the shortcomings of different terminal emulators are really OT > and the only conclusion should be that there really seems to be no > problem with either Emacs or the Emacs port. Good to know. And, thanks for the detailed feedback. :-) -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 Sent from my Emacs
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