Haifux celebrates 15 years this Monday
Hi all, This Monday, Haifux' two Founding Fathers, Guy Keren and Orr Dunkelman, will reflect on the past: Guy will talk about how baby Linux has grown since Haifux was founded, and Orr will go on reading from the Book of Bad Crypto Decisions. This is also a nice opportunity for an all-times reunion. :) See you all, Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
terminal emulator
What terminal emulators are out there that correctly do bidirectional text, for displaying hebrew in a readable manner. finding one that displays hebrew, but left to right, isn't hard, but either i'm not configuring it correctly or I'm not finding one that does it right. thanks efraim signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: terminal emulator
2014-08-28 15:13 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com: What terminal emulators are out there that correctly do bidirectional text, for displaying hebrew in a readable manner. finding one that displays hebrew, but left to right, isn't hard, but either i'm not configuring it correctly or I'm not finding one that does it right. I personally use mlterm, and it's good enough for my simple needs. Generally speaking, there is no correct way, as in according to standard X, and AFAIK it's considered these days out of scope for terminals. In that sense mlterm is not really following any standard, apart from the unicode bidi algorithm. What doens't/can't it do? E.g. correctly handle different parts of a line that are unrelated (e.g. if you open mutt and you have Hebrew both in the sender's name and in the Subject, it might not display correctly), it has no means to set the paragraph direction, etc. -- Didi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: terminal emulator
tilda shows up left-to-right with hebrew letters, mlterm shows up right-to-left with boxes. All on debian sid. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7048321/tilda.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7048321/mlterm.jpg On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:30:33 +0300 Yedidyah Bar David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: 2014-08-28 15:13 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com: What terminal emulators are out there that correctly do bidirectional text, for displaying hebrew in a readable manner. finding one that displays hebrew, but left to right, isn't hard, but either i'm not configuring it correctly or I'm not finding one that does it right. I personally use mlterm, and it's good enough for my simple needs. Generally speaking, there is no correct way, as in according to standard X, and AFAIK it's considered these days out of scope for terminals. In that sense mlterm is not really following any standard, apart from the unicode bidi algorithm. What doens't/can't it do? E.g. correctly handle different parts of a line that are unrelated (e.g. if you open mutt and you have Hebrew both in the sender's name and in the Subject, it might not display correctly), it has no means to set the paragraph direction, etc. -- Didi -- Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com 4096R/CA3D8351 created: 2013-10-08 GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: terminal emulator
2014-08-28 18:06 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com: tilda shows up left-to-right with hebrew letters, mlterm shows up right-to-left with boxes. All on debian sid. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7048321/tilda.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7048321/mlterm.jpg I now verified that konsole also shows hebrew right-to-left. You should probably configure mlterm (ctrl-rightclick) to use some other font. I personally use both xterm and mlterm with a very old raster (pcf) font I found somewhere a very long time ago, don't remember anymore where, and tweaked a bit since. I don't mind sharing it, but any modern vector font will probably look better. -- Didi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
