From: Frederik Fouvry via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: 55256@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55256: Writing direction
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 11:02:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABANGDe+veoX9kkPjTXrgYDF-yTd-FOLRownna2FsEsoEDpcJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834k254sez.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Wed, 4 May 2022 at 10:23, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 09:20:05 +0200
> > From: frederik.fouvry--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> > the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >
> >
> > I forgot to add:
> >
> > The Unicode noncharacters should not cause a change in writing
> > direction, since they are not Arabic characters, but a set of characters
> > for internal use only (no exchange between different parties).
>
> That is not entirely true, because Unicode assigns default Bidi Class
> properties to some unassigned codepoints, and Emacs obeys that. So an
> unassigned codepoint (which is AFAIU what "noncharacter" stands for in
> your terminology) for which Unicode says that its Bidi Class should
> be, for example, AL, _will_ cause change of text directionality.
>
> If you use those unassigned codepoints for private use, you will have
> to override the default properties by manually modifying the relevant
> Emacs char-tables at run time.
>
That sounds fair enough. I admit that my statement was generalising too
much.
The odd name "noncharacter" is Unicode terminology, not mine (see e.g. Spec
v14, Ch. 2, p.30).
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2022-05-04 7:06 bug#55256: 27.1; Unicode noncharacters may change writing direction frederik.fouvry--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-04 7:20 ` bug#55256: Writing direction frederik.fouvry--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-04 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-04 9:02 ` Frederik Fouvry via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-06-02 13:09 ` bug#55256: 27.1; Unicode noncharacters may change writing direction Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-04 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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