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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:

> What type of functionality? Right-to-left? It doesn't seem like that 
> big a deal - wide_text_io could handle it right now, right?

In the Unicode universe, handling right-to-left scripts correctly is
mostly the job of the terminal, not of the application.  Unicode
stores characters in logical order, not in visual order.