Vectors (was: Re: [Fribidi-discuss] fribidi and arabic joining)

[Omer Zak]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

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> D.  Using the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms is also essential 
> with Linux console, as the kernel maps the Unicode codepoints to 
> glyphs, for other scripts like syriac which does not have the 
> presentation forms in unicode, their presentaion forms should be 
> registered in the private area of unicode (H. Peter Anvin is 
> responsible for registering them in linux), to  be able to show 
> them in linux console.
> 
> E.  About the overhead of it on fribidi, I believe that the 
> hebrew community should not be so happy, but:
> 
> 	1.  It can be fully turned out with a configure time 
> option.
> 	2.  When compiled with Arabic Joining, by default its 
> off, the developer should turn it on if needed.
> 	3.  I try to put it in a different binary to save the 
> resources.