Re: Proposal for BiDi in terminal emulators

From: Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:33:38 +0100

Le 30/01/2019 à 14:36, Egmont Koblinger via Unicode a écrit :
> - It doesn't do Arabic shaping. In my recommendation I'm arguing that
> in this mode, where shuffling the characters is the task of the text
> editor and not the terminal, so should it be for Arabic shaping using
> presentation form characters.

I guess Arabic shaping is doable through presentation form characters,
because the latter are character inherited from legacy standards using
them in such solutions. But if you want to support other “arabic like”
scripts (like Syriac, N’ko), or even some LTR complex scripts, like
Myanmar or Khmer, this “solution” cannot work, because no equivalent of
“presentation form characters” exists for these scripts
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