On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:51:06PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
On 07 Aug 2000 17:27:55 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
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
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, Roman M . Parparov wrote:
It's not only the browser in the end.
It'd expand the capabilities to any output device presumed LTR.
It sounds like a hack. Should Perl support such hacks in the core?
Is this sofisticated enough, or do we need something more low-level?
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, Roman M . Parparov wrote:
This is a tough one. But it is known that the numerical game scores and
likewise are being written RTL. As for math, I've seen it being written
both ways. I am not a native hebrew speaker and I consulted some natives
at work and no consensus was
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 09:36:12PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
BiDirectional Support in PERL
I know nothing about bi-directional output. It doesn't seem
like Perl has any assumption of left-to-right at all. What's
the difference between right-to-left support in Perl
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
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"
On 07 Aug 2000 17:27:55 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
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
Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
BiDirectional Support in PERL
I know nothing about bi-directional output. It doesn't seem
like Perl has any assumption of left-to-right at all. What's
the difference between right-to-left support in Perl and just
editing/using Perl in an xterm that does right-to-left?
