On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> Kaixo!
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:26:21PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> > fribidi_log2vis with the base direction NEUTRAL (instead of LTR).
> >
> > However, numbers can cause a strange behaviour:
> >
> > # What I write:
> > $ echo 1 [2]
> > # What I get in the xterm (visual)
> > 2] 1]
>
> however "echo a 1 [2]" or "echo � 1 [2]" ('�' being a char supposed to be
> in a RTL script) do work as expected, doesn't it?
Think what a uses that does not know about bidi expects. My example showed
a case in which the behaviour of the terminal has changed even without any
RTL chars. Thus it can confuse users who are unaware of this issue.
(BTW: I'm currently still using fribidi 0.9.0 (from Mandrake 8.1)
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Tzafrir Cohen
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