On 2003-03-03, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote about "Re: [Which list?] Unicode, bidi, > terminals and tables": > > > 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 :-). > > Another thing you might want to look at is luit (see > http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/luit/, and it also comes by > default in Redhat 8). > Luit does not currently implement bidi (the guy who wrote this discusses > the reason in the aforementioned page) - but you might be interested to look > at its code, if you plan to write such a filter yourself. > I knew of this one. I think it only makes encoding translation on the character stream passing through it; I highly doubt it holds an internal model of what's now displayed where that bidi would require (but I never actually checked). I'd rather consider GNU screen; I looked at the source and the prospect was not very inviting :-). That's why I'm happy if Akka does this for me.
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