On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 09:36:12PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
> Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> > BiDirectional Support in PERL
>
> I know nothing about bi-directional output. It doesn't seem
> like Perl has any assumption of left-to-right at all. What's
> the difference between right-to-left support in Perl and just
> editing/using Perl in an xterm that does right-to-left?
>
> - Ken
The main application of this is going to be CGI field, for the people
who fill and submit forms containing RTL language and expects to receive
the RTL output.
I wrote a WWW mail program with hebrew support once. Pain in the ass to
invent and reinvent functions for printing Hebrew correctly. Moreover, a
lot of self-written reversing and replacing reduces the performance from
what it would be if we just had it implemented in the core of Perl.
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