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Re: support for RTL text directly in the terminal?
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Benno Schulenberg |
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Re: support for RTL text directly in the terminal? |
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Sun, 16 Feb 2020 12:05:16 +0100 |
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Op 12-02-2020 om 21:19 schreef Mahyar Abbaspour:
> Looks like I didn't. I think at that time, nano was using svn. I converted
> the repo from svn to git but looks like I never pushed my work there.
Do you still have the repo? Can you still push it? I am curious to see
what amount of work would be needed to get this to work in nano.
> I guess Knosole (the terminal emulator of the KDE desktop) supports RTL to
> some extent because of the Qt toolkit.
One of these days I'll download a KDE-based distro and see in Konsole does
any better than mlterm.
> I think the most promising one is gnome-terminal which added support for
> bidirectional text in their 3.33.3 release [1]. At least, it does the shaping
> phase right.
The support has been added to VTE, so all terminal emulators based on it
(like Xfce-terminal) will get this support for bidi text.
Benno
> [1]
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2019-July/msg00003.html
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