Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide@sacrificumdeo.net> wrote:

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> I am willing to guess that with something like Hebrew, OpenBSD has all the 
> necessary support for the system, but, most common applications do not have 
> support for the right-to-left way of writing.

Well, do you consider, say, ksh and vi as part of the system or as
"common applications"?

What about wscons?  Does a Hebrew VT220 change writing direction?

I know that adding full POSIX i18n support requires changes to lots
of text processing tools under /usr/bin.  Languages like Hebrew or
Arabic are likely to add further complications, but I don't know
if their needs are covered by POSIX.

At least I'm aware that I know approximately nothing about this
topic.  I sure hope people who make confident pronouncements are
actually more knowledgeable.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de