print arabic characters

[vincent wehren]

"Ahmad" <eng_ak at link.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3014031e.0312221113.38d13d28 at posting.google.com...
| Sorry for not being very verbose
|
| I am on Linux Redhat9. Terminal used is Konsole. I am not really sure
| if the terminal should be the one re-arranging the chars?! The konsole
| people say it should be the application programmer to arrange the bidi
| chars correctly!
|
| Also, I hope that my application will be cross-platform, so if there
| is a way that will work with windows please tell me...

The sad thruth is that complex scripts (including Arabic) are not supported
on win32 console.

Vincent Wehren

|
| Do I need python2.3? I think the one pre-packaged is 2.2
|
| Also, how do I print "(U+U200F)"?
|
| Thnx a lot
|
| "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message
news:<bs6mpb$g9d$03$1 at news.t-online.com>...
| > Ahmad wrote:
| >
| > >    I am a python newbie, I want to print on the console UTF-8 arabic
| > > characters. They print OK with
| > > print text.encode("UTF-8")
| >
| > Are you talking about console mode (i.e. the cmd.exe window)? Or are
| > you perhaps talking about IDLE?
| >
| > In Python 2.3, they should also print ok when you print a Unicode object
| > proper; sys.stdout.encoding should indicate what encoding the terminal
| > uses.
| >
| > > BUT, the characters are printed LTR, not RTL (right to left). How can
| > > I change the printing direction??
| >
| > Assuming it is IDLE: This is a bug in Tk, then - I don't know whether
| > Tk supports RTL.
| >
| > Assuming it is the terminal: Does the terminal support RTL in the first
| > place? Python does nothing else but write the characters in logical
| > order to the terminal stream; it would be the terminal's job to put
| > them in the right display order. Perhaps printing RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
| > (U+U200F) helps?
| >
| > Regards,
| > Martin