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Subject: Re: bidi and shaping problems in describe-input-method
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> From: Mohsen BANAN <list-general@mohsen.1.banan.byname.net>
> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:17:41 -0800
> 
> Try:
> (describe-input-method 'arabic)
> and then try:
> (describe-input-method 'hebrew)
> 
> In the case of 'arabic note how the entire
> keyboard is flipped to the right.

That's easy to fix.

> The second problem is shaping related:
> 
> Inside of a cell on the keyboard layout, when
> there are two characters that can be joined, they
> are joined -- be default. They should not be.

How can one know when they should be joined and when not?