Here's a patch that implements a simple Arabic shaper in xterm. You can
use it with fonts with the arabic presentation forms in them (e.g 10x20u)
Known bugs :
* no bidi
* no Lam-Alef ligature
* it doesn't reshape characters next to the one it just drew (or erased
or whatever...) Refreshing the display always makes it work.
* no support for ZWNJ
* it dies when not in UTF-8 mode
I'm waiting on licencing clearing for the shaping table, so until then the
patch is probably LGPLed.
--
Robert
xterm-arabic-12.diff.gz
