Re: [Groff] Arabic support ?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > It really hurts me to say that but I think that the cleanest way
> > currently is to use an external man2xxx (for example, man2html)
> > translator.
>
> This is too late reply, but I found that all what we need to get man
> pages in Arabic is to have proper Unicode support in groff as, in
> the case of man pages, the RTL and shapping should be handeled by
> the terminal not by groff itself (I found that after using Bruno
> Haible's utf-8 hack)

Unfortunately, this isn't true.  groff really does *format* the man
page, so it has to know both the direction of the text and the metrics
of the used fonts, even for TTYs.


    Werner