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...@didi.bardavid.org> wrote: > 2014-08-28 15:13 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner > <efraim.flash...@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 -- Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com 4096R/CA3D8351 created: 2013-10-08 GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351
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