Proposal for BiDi in terminal emulators

[Eli Zaretskii via Unicode]

> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 01:30:26 +0000
> From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
> 
> Shaping for RTL scripts happens on strings stored in logical order.
> These are then laid out right to left, though the dominant usage of
> the term 'advance width' for right-to-left glyph sequences feels
> perversely different from the use for left to right glyph sequences.
> 
> Passing text in the form of characters in left-to-right order is an
> annoying distraction, presumably forced on you by the attempt to
> maximise compatibility with existing systems.

Actually, you pass the characters to be shaped in logical order, and
then display the produced grapheme clusters in visual order.