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Re: Bidi terminal emulation considered harmful (fwd)



At 17:58 +0200 on 29/11/2001, Shaul Karl wrote:


>  I wonder what others think about the adoption of basic Unix tools to
>  work with BiDi. The opinion of the author of the fwd message is
>  expressed at the last paragraph.

The conclusion he makes about filenames etc, if adopted, is going to 
prevent unix/linux from ever being adopted by general Hebrew-reading 
populace. Environment variables and URLs, OK, but everybody in Israel 
is used to calling his files names in his/her mother's tongue. Maybe 
you can leave off Hebrew in terminals (How do Hebrew file names look 
like in a DOS window? I don't use Windows, so I don't know), but 
certainly not in anything GUI which presents filenames (Konqueror as 
a file explorer, the desktop, the Open/Save dialog box, and so on).

Herouth
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