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Re: Recent history of vi

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On 13 Dec 2025 11:40:31 GMT
Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

> Le 05-12-2025, Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> a écrit :
> > On 12/5/25 13:52, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> 
> >> Agreed. I see only one issue clearly limited to UTF-8. In most of the actual
> >> writing systems the characters are displayed from left to right, others
> >> from right to left and, to my knowledge only old scripts, in
> >> boustrophedon. 
> >
> > I wonder, is there any way to do this now without a lot of work? Are the 
> > right-to-left charachers different from the left-to-right?
> 
> I believe that characters form rigth-to-left are different than those
> from left-to-right because if it wasn't the case it would be cumbersome
> to write by hand. But I see no difficulties. The same way as the same
> Arabic letter is written differently if it's in the beginning, in the
> end or in the middle of a word. As the same time as you have a character
> to tell you it's the end of the line or the end of the file, you have a
> character to switch the order of the reading. So everything is ready to
> use, maybe the old boustrophedon scripts are already encoded, I have no
> clue. But I see no issue for taking care of it.
> 
> >> Of course, the rendering isn't considered by the encoding. It's the
> >> purpose of the font. I choose fonts which doesn't make me think about
> >> the character written. The 0 and O doesn't have to be similar. Like 1
> >> and l and I can be easily differentiated. If it's not the case on your
> >> computer and if that matters, change the font, not the encoding.
> >
> > I usually spend a lot of time settling on fonts for an editor. Right now 
> > I'm using "IBM Plex Mono", but I've tried a bunch.
> 
> That I can understand. When I was young, I was looking for nice looking
> fonts. Now, I'm looking for easy to distinguish characters fonts. I'm
> stuck with source code pro which is fine for me. But I could switch to
> another font, I'll would look for 0 O I l 1 to see if I have to discard
> it directly or not. When reading plain text English or French it's not
> very important, when reading programs, it can be.
> 
With my current level of eyesight I find a cursive? capital 'L' difficult
to distinguish from 'I.'. Oh, the joy of fonts.

-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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