On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 6:08 AM, Jonathan Fine <jfine2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Generally, problems with RTL text are *display* problems, and are not >> solved by reversing strings. > > I very much agree with this statement, with one exception. If you wish > to display RTL text on a LTR display, then a suitable reversing of > strings is probably part of the solution.
That assumes that there is such a thing as an "LTR display". I disagree. :) There are "buggy displays" and there are "flawed displays" and there are "simplistic and naive displays", any or all of which could be limited in what they're able to render (and for the record, there's nothing inherently wrong with a simplistic display); but for those, Arabic text simply won't display correctly. RTL text is just one such problem (other examples include the way that different characters affect each other - an Arabic word is not the same as the abuttal of its individual characters - and the correct wrapping of text that uses joiners and spacers), and perfect Unicode display is *hard*. Improving a rendering engine or console so it's capable of correct RTL display is outside the scope of Python code, generally. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
