BiDirectional text support
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- Python
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Description
In the modern world, the support for some languages that are right-to-left and mixing them with left-to-write words and numbers is crucial for a different software. At some point, this should be supported everywhere, including the console.
I started to gather the information about BiDi support in various console terminals (and programs) in analogy with true color crusade at https://gist.github.com/XVilka/a0e49e1c65370ba11c17
New [console BiDi specification](https://terminal-wg.pages.freedesktop.org/bidi/) was recently implemented in libvte by @egmontkob: https://terminal-wg.pages.freedesktop.org/bidi/implementations.html#vte
Note, that with the release of [GNOME 3.34](https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/09/gnome-3-34-released/) the support of BiDi is available in Gnome Terminal out of the box, which makes testing/implementing it in the other programs, such as kitty way easier.
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Research direction
The issue points to kitty's console support and the linked terminal-wg BiDi specification, with libvte and GNOME Terminal as reference implementations. Start by reading the specification and implementation list, then compare kitty's current behavior with those references. Done requires a concrete scope for BiDi support and tests demonstrating the specified behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, python
- Domain
- cli, internationalization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100