terminal emulator

[Yedidyah Bar David]

2014-08-28 15:13 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner <efraim.flashner at 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
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