On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:09:23PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > - Design and implement an extension to ncursesw to support bidi in the > most conveninet way for the application writer, so that there is > real chance people would use it. This might involve new escape > sequences (or definition of semantics of unicode bidi control codes) > if we wish to minimize breakage (e.g. cut-and-paste should be in > logical order). E.g. curses could transmit nested LRE/RLE..PDF > seqences and the terminal would re-arrange them. To limit the > scope, perhaps they should only work in ncurses, not touching any > terminal code (either by living with the breakage or others helping > them with other parts). This project is complex (and long) to do > right; one thing it will teach them is to heavily discuss design > ideas over mailing lists...
Alternatively: slang instead of ncursesw ? Probably a similar scope. Indeed. BTW: any idea what is the "fribidi support" in the package motor? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
