Juliusz Chroboczek wrote on 2002-02-04 17:55 UTC: > Don't variation selectors appear *after* the character they apply to?
Yes. > If so, they'll be a pain to implement in a terminal emulator. > (Remember that unlike PuTTY, XTerm doesn't use a backing store, and > modifying already existing characters will cause flicker.) May be, it's time xterm buffers strings as well a bit before outputing them. In any case, it's not worse then combining characters and other ligature substitution. In the end, with Unicode, you'll always need to be prepared to look ahead in the character stream and undo a glyph that you have written at the end of a read() string. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
