Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Shawn Highfield:

MK> replicate a tablet-like system given that they usually sport a ~8"
MK> monitor and thus text messaging would be a good thing to get working
MK> on there.  No?

  Very true, would be a good power saving system for fidonet as well.

MK> Yeah.  At the moment I have no Arabic text files onboard.  Also I
MK> believe there will be formatting issues with both Arabic and Hebrew
MK> that cannot be resolved following standard operating procedures for
MK> text messaging.  Seems to me that they alternate between left to
MK> right and right to left for reading their text.  I can see that
MK> playing real havoc with word wrapping.

  I had forgot about that aspect of the language.  That will give you some
serious puzzle solving to get that straight.  I don't even know how you would
begin to figure out word wrapping... I guess as long as the other end is
showing the correct language?

Shawn
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