mobile-shell/mosh

Investigate rendering of Arabic

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#213 opened on Apr 17, 2012

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Description

ECMA-48 doesn't support RTL Unicode and neither do we, but if screen, tmux, gnome-terminal and xterm all support Arabic in the same way, we should too.

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Research direction
Investigate how other terminal emulators (screen, tmux, gnome terminal, xterm) render Arabic script, focusing on bidi and shaping support. Compare their implementations and propose an approach for mosh.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
cli
Issue type
Research
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Mostly clear
Prerequisites
Unicodeterminal emulation
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
50