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This talk at Google by Roozbeh Pournader is very good at laying out the issues with bidirectional language issues in software. This is a non-trivial problem and
by abdullahkhalids 12y ago
This talk at Google by Roozbeh Pournader is very good at laying out the issues with bidirectional language issues in software. This is a non-trivial problem and is rarely ever solved correctly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOEzYefrqo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOEzYefrqo4
- 616c 12y agoAnd not so ironically, Behdad Esfahbod, one of the original developers of HarfBuzz, works for Google now, according to his blurb on Github. https://github.com/behdad https://github.com/behdad I actually emailed him a few times before I discovered mlterm to read Arabic and other RTL fonts in a terminal (you might ask why: file names and I use mutt for email). Very nice guy, and I am very appreciative of this library.