Re: LYNX-DEV Patch for development version 0.58

[Doug Kaufman]

On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> you wouldn't be able to search for a "word" except by typing "drow", which
> some people might object to.  (And since, as I understand it, rendering
> is in terms of strings, I'd suppose the whole page would be mirror-image
> when displayed).

As I understand it, the character sets specify which pattern will be
displayed for each character _individually_.  I don't see where
left-to-right or right-to-left is involved with individual character
representation on the screen.  Searching for a latin word should work
fine.  Searching for a word written right-to-left would be more
difficult, and would probably be best done by printing the web page and
using a tool designed for right-to-left languages, but as you
demonstrated, it isn't that difficult to write "drow".
                              Doug
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