terminal emulator

[Efraim Flashner]

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-il at didi.bardavid.org> wrote:

> 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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