On 2003-03-03, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: [Which list?] Unicode, bidi, 
> terminals and tables":
> > Note that what you described does not need to be a terminal-emulator at
> > all! It can, and perhaps even should, be simply a pseudo-terminal layer
> > which processes the text and passes it to a normal, bidi-agnostic,
> > terminal emulator. I believe I once saw the Arabeyes project have exactly
> > such a system (I don't remember its name).
>
Quite probably yes, this seems like the best way to implement such a
system, at least for the short term.

> I think what I had in mind was Acon, or Akka (the latter is a rewrite and
> supposedly improvement of the former). Check out arabeyes.org for more
> information.
>
Great, didn't know such a thing already exists!  That should allow
bidi in the console.  Will grab it as soon as I recover my HD :-).

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Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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