Tony wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 8:36 PM Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Patch 8.1.0578
> > Problem:    Cannot disable arabic, rightleft and farsi in configure.
> > Solution:   Add configur flags. (Diego Fernando CarriĆ³n, closes #1867)
> > Files:      src/configure.ac, src/auto/configure, src/config.h.in,
> >             src/feature.h, src/Makefile
> 
> IMHO --disable-rightleft should imply --disable-arabic and
> --disable-farsi (since both Arabic and Farsi, and BTW even Hebrew
> support would be rather pointless without RTL support) but it is not
> clear to me that it does.

It appears some terminals have bidi support, and it works to use Vim in
it without left-right support.  Arabic shaping might still work then.  I
don't use these languages, thus I wouldn't know how well that works.

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