[Alpine-info] index garbled by this message

[Nicolas KOWALSKI]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Steve Hubert wrote:


> Maybe. It is due to Alpine's total lack of understanding of 

> directionality in the Hebrew text (or Unicode text in general). Alpine 

> assumes that the text it is writing will show up from left-to-right on 

> the screen and it will be confused if it doesn't.


Thanks for this explanation.


> You'll see different results depending on your emulator and the environment in

> which your emulator is running. For example, I'm running PuTTY 0.58 on a

> Windows XP system right now. In this PuTTY there is a feature to "Disable

> bidirectional text display". If you turn that on it will probably clear up the

> garbledness of the screen, but the Hebrew should be displayed left-to-right

> instead of right-to-left (assuming you have a font that contains the Hebrew

> characters).


Well, I am also using Putty on Windows XP to access my Alpine session.:-) 
When using the feature you described, the index keeps perfectly clean.

Thanks a lot!
-- 
Nicolas