Visidata with RTL text

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 09:53:36AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> 
>     On 09/06/2022 19:10, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >       If anybody doesn't yet use Visidata, then give it a look. It is
> > ostensibly a tool for looking at tabular data, like CSV files, but it
> > works with so many formats that I find myself using it very often as
> > it is easier to use than purpose-built tools. I even use it to poke
> > around the filesystem sometimes.
> > 
> > https://www.visidata.org/
> > 
> > Visidata unfortunately places consecutive RTL cells in reverse order.
> > Here's the bug that I filed:
> > https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/1392
> > 
> > It would be great if someone could add something constructive to that
> > bug report. I personally have many CSV files and other files with
> > Hebrew and Arabic text. Thanks.
> 
>     
> If you can find the part of the code that outpus, simply inserting
> an "LRM" character between cells should, at the very least, greatly
> improve things.

Isn't that what LRE and PDF are for?

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