On 9/24/07, Christian Weisgerber  wrote:

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> Aaron W. Hsu  wrote:

>

> > 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?

http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/
vim supports right to left layout and Arabic shaping, but without

Unicode semantics for number strings, so you kinda have to know what

you're doing if you're going to use it to edit text with number

strings.
emacs has had an implementation of r-t-l for years, waiting for

somebody to test/debug.
A good resource for this sort of thing is arabeyes.org.  Their focus

is Arabic but they try to accomodate any r-t-l language, including

Hebrew (in general, if it supports Arabic, it supports Hebrew).  They

also stick to technology.
-gregg