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#1 2021-05-22 17:51:13
- disdaarchacc
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[UTF-8] persian inputs get mirrored
hey y'all.
i have a minimal openbox setup. i've set the default persian(farsi) font so it shows the characters just fine(no gibberish) but as i type persian in urxvt or dmenu, the output gets mirrored and seperated. like these:
hi (in persian) --> i h(with a space in-between)
سلام to م ا ل س
regards
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#2 2021-05-22 19:15:47
- seth
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Re: [UTF-8] persian inputs get mirrored
For urxvt, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rxvt-u … al_support
Not sure about dmenu, but rofi supports bidirectional input.
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#3 2021-05-22 19:20:53
- disdaarchacc
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Re: [UTF-8] persian inputs get mirrored
For urxvt, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rxvt-u … al_support
Not sure about dmenu, but rofi supports bidirectional input.
would it have sth to do with locale(/etc/locale)? in general?
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#4 2021-05-22 19:25:56
- seth
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Re: [UTF-8] persian inputs get mirrored
No.
You need to have *some* UTF-8 locale in order to use the utf-8 range (anything beyond ascii) but that can just as much be en_US.utf-8.
The rest is about "how does program™ treat chars/sequences from the rtl-culture™ utf-8 range" and very client specific (though the big toolkits can handle this)
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