You missed part of his missive.
He mentioned two different encodings. Logical and Visual. I'm not clear
which is which. One orders the characters so that the first char is
first. The other reorders the characters to correctly display on a
device that can not understand rtl text.
<chaim>
>>>>> "BL" == Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BL> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:04:11 +0300, Roman M . Parparov wrote:
>> I wrote a WWW mail program with hebrew support once. Pain in the ass to
>> invent and reinvent functions for printing Hebrew correctly. Moreover, a
>> lot of self-written reversing and replacing reduces the performance from
>> what it would be if we just had it implemented in the core of Perl.
BL> That doesn't sound like it should be. The start of a sentence should
BL> come first, i.e. substr($_, 0, 1) should return the first character.
BL> Whether this should appear on the left or on the right of the screen, is
BL> not Perl's concern.
BL> Granted, I've heard of primitive output devices which a re blissfully
BL> unaware of the correct graphical output of such text strings, and which
BL> would print them from left to right anyway. But a silly patch that
BL> remedies the symptoms while ignoring the underlying false assumptions,
BL> does not seem right.
BL> What if you encounter a display device that correctly displays Hebrew
BL> text from right to left?
BL> --
BL> Bart.
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