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Re: Bidi terminal emulation considered harmful (fwd)
- To: Shaul Karl <shaulka(at-nospam)bezeqint.net>, linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
- Subject: Re: Bidi terminal emulation considered harmful (fwd)
- From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(at-nospam)netvision.net.il>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:43:05 +0200
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- In-reply-to: <E169TaL-0003iE-00@rakefet>
- References: <E169TaL-0003iE-00@rakefet>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
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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