Re: [I18n]Re: Thai XIM

2001-11-28 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:18:20AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: Hi, At Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:01:26 +1100, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: tis620-0 is the offical one. please patch the code I'll try the mlterm soon. I think it is the same as tis620.2533-1, just the naming that is

bidi terminal (was Re: [I18n]Re: Thai XIM)

2001-11-28 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: I hope that mlterm also takes into considerations the RTL (Right To Left) languages. As far as I know these are Hebrew and Arabic. Actually, BiDi (Bi Directional) might be more suitable then RTL in this context since users of these languages do expect

Re: [I18n]Re: Bidi terminal emulation considered harmful

2001-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote: You might end up with the same conclusion as I did: Bidi is best kept completely out of the terminal and the vision of bidi ever working as naturally and simple between terminals and simple Unix tools such as cat or ls is probabaly a naive illusion.

Re: [I18n]Re: Thai XIM

2001-11-28 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:32:15AM +0100, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: tis620.-x and tis620-x both use negative expand; that is needed for combining characters. As stated above, I think the negative expand is forbidden for monospace or charcell fonts, according to X spec. So, rendering engines

Re: [I18n]Re: Thai XIM

2001-11-28 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:24:41AM +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:32:15AM +0100, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: tis620.-x and tis620-x both use negative expand; that is needed for combining characters. As stated above, I think the negative expand