Hebrew with putty

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:43:37AM +0300, אורי wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I realized it is probably a bug in putty, so I wrote to
> putty at projects.tartarus.org and got a reply.
> 
> https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/feedback.html
> 
> However the putty developers might need help to fix it as they are not
> RTL-language speaking themselves, so if you know how to do it you can write
> to them or send them a patch of the source code. I tried to look at the
> putty source code myself but it looks complicated and I don't know how to
> fix this bug for myself. There is an option to disable bidirectional text
> display in putty, but then the Hebrew text is reversed too.

The basic thing you can do is simplify the test case. Put that text in a
file and make sure that merely cat of that file gives the problematic
output. Then try to get a minimal example that still shows the problem.

-- Tzafrir