Re: LYNX-DEV Patch for development version 0.58

[T.E.Dickey]

> may be different.  There is actually defined iso-8859-8 and iso-8859-8-i
> and iso-8859-e, depending on whether "visual" or "implicit" or "explicit"
> directionality is used  (RFC 1556.  And it gets really fun when
> left-to-right and right-to-left text parts are mixed.
> 
> So basically Lynx will show text written in Hebrew and Arabic reversed.
> I don't know whether users of those languages are more trained than others
> to read sdrawkcab, maybe they are more used to this kind of trouble.
> WIthout *lots* of changes lynx support for these scripts will be rather
> half-assed, but since it seems Fote and you would like to see it - well
> the more the merrier. :)
I have an impression that the newer SVr4 curses implementations (not yet
ncurses ;-) do the left-to-right vs right-to-left automatically as part of
the locale support (I'm starting to investigate that).  But that wouldn't
help Lynx much, since that's only one configuration...

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Thomas E. Dickey
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