On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:51:06PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On 07 Aug 2000 17:27:55 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>
> >He mentioned two different encodings. Logical and Visual. I'm not clear
> >which is which. One orders the characters so that the first char is
> >first. The other reorders the characters to correctly display on a
> >device that can not understand rtl text.
>
Logical is the one to display first as first.
The idea is to support directly visual outputs, thus only requiring
from a device to support the output font.
> It's just that, in his application area, CGI, that the browser just
> might display it as RtL regardless of what he expected.
>
It's not only the browser in the end.
It'd expand the capabilities to any output device presumed LTR.
> It sounds like a hack. Should Perl support such hacks in the core?
>
> Is this sofisticated enough, or do we need something more low-level?
>
> $ltr = join '', reverse split /($sequence|.)/, $rtl;
>
It won't work with a mixed text, and there the pain in the ass begins.
Numbers, Latin char strings, here we go.
This is what Hebrew ViM did, and it is not easy to work with EVERYTHING
going from right to left.
The problem was big enough for that ECMA document to appear.
> --
> Bart.
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