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Wezterm, like Alacritty doesn't support RTL languages.
by CIAvash 6y ago
Wezterm, like Alacritty doesn't support RTL languages.
- spoiler 6y agoCould you provide a screenshot of a RTL terminal? I wasn't aware people use those. Probably showing my own ignorance here, but when would you need to use it. Also, I'd assume this has nothing to do with terminal emulator (might be a wrong assumption). I thought the shell/TUI just has to position the cursor on the right hand side and emit the correct Unicode?
- CIAvash 6y agoCurrently I'm aware of two terminal that support RTL languages, Konsole and gnome-terminal. The terminal itself doesn't need to be RTL, but the text that is entered or printed. Here's screenshots of Konsole and Alacritty: https://imgur.com/a/x8Zy6ug https://imgur.com/a/x8Zy6ug
- CIAvash 6y agoI'm not very knowledgeable on this. But, a program that wants to support RTL languages, in this case a terminal, needs to support bidirectional text and text shaping.