Re: Bidi paragraph direction in terminal emulators

On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, 00:09 Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org
wrote:

>
> Moreover, emitting the control sequences that set the mode is in
> itself a complication, because if the terminal doesn't support them,
> the result could be corrupted display. You will need methods of
> detecting the support, and those detection methods usually involve
> sending another control sequence to the terminal and waiting for
> response, something that complicates applications and causes delays in
> displaying output.
>

That's what the TERM environment variable is for though.

Regards,
Elias
Received on Fri Feb 08 2019 - 23:34:24 CST