Re: Proposal for BiDi in terminal emulators

From: Ken Whistler via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:57:53 -0800

On 1/31/2019 1:41 AM, Egmont Koblinger via Unicode wrote:
> I mean, for
> example we can introduce control characters that specify the language.

That is a complete non-starter for the Unicode Standard. And if the
terminal implementation introduces such as one-off hacks, they will fail
completely for interoperability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag

That belongs to the markup level, not to the plain text stream.

--Ken
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