Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:21:55 -0600
From: Gregg Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
Sorry, there's still no support for bidi editing in any version of
Emacs, not even in the CVS.
Sure there is! Well, sort of. Emacs correctly shapes Arabic *words*
(including diacritics) RTL, but sentences run LTR. Sometimes you have
to C-l to get it to redraw the shapes.
Is this on MS-Windows, by any chance? Because if it is, then Emacs
has nothing to do with this: it's the Windows function used to display
a word, it reorders the logical into visual order automatically. But
as soon as you move the cursor with C-f or the arrow keys, the
characters are displayed in their logical order, LTR. That's not bidi
support, it's not even close.
Aha. I always wondered why Emacs had this strange capability. Yes,
this is just nt-emacs; I've never been able to figure out how to control
fonts on my other machine (OS X), so I've not tested it elsewhere.
Well, in any case it's quite useful. VERY eagerly awaiting rtl arabic
support in Emacs -
thanks,
gregg
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