On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> I tried your 0.13 patch. But it does the shaping the wrong way. The
> shaping is right-to-left while the characters are written
> left-to-right. So ALEF-NOON becomes
>
> ALEF(final)-NOON(initial)
>
> instead of
>
> ALEF(isolated)-NOON(isolated)
Yeah. I thought about this long and hard, and decided that this way would
be preferable for things that want to do their own Bidi, but still want
xterm to do the shaping - and doing it the other way doesn't make sense
unless we have...
> BTW, what about the mirrored glyph shapes?
Er, I started work on bidi instead. Seemed to be a better use of my time
than hitting "mirror" lots in xmbdfed. :)
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Robert
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