From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apropos emacs-intl-fonts & https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHebrew Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:48:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83bo219y1k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871u2yx799.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383500923 10890 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2013 17:48:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 03 18:48:48 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd1n5-0005wf-N3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:48:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45924 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd1n5-0001zG-CU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:48:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd1my-0001y9-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd1mq-0007Yh-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:34385) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd1mq-0007YS-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:48:32 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MVP00G007TQUO00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:48:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MVP00GOQ84TRY20@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:48:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <871u2yx799.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164902 Archived-At: > From: Jambunathan K > Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 13:10:50 +0530 > Cc: Uwe Brauer >=20 >=20 > In the following wiki page, >=20 > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHebrew >=20 > I also happened to run across a remark marked as=20 >=20 > Do we need these? > .... >=20 > emacs-intl-fonts - Fonts to allow multi-lingual PostScript prin= ting > from Emacs=20 That page was last updated in 2009, so it is terribly outdated. Certainly, anything related to Emacs that it says is incorrect, since Emacs 24.1 with bidirectional editing support was released in 2012. > Can someone knowledgeable fix the wiki page to clarify whether or n= ot > emacs-intl-fonts is required or not for hebrew support? They are not needed. Any font that supports the corresponding characters will do. > In the following message, >=20 > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-10/msg0101= 8.html >=20 > there is the following Org attachment,=20 >=20 > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-10/txtgwNqs= ktCoy.txt >=20 > How would I make the English row correspond to it's Hebrew row. You mean, like this: | =D7=A9=D7=9C=D7=95=D7=9D | =D7=93=D7=95=D7=93 | | =E2=80=8FHello | David | The reason for this problem and the solutions available in Emacs are described in the node "Bidirectional Display" in the ELisp manual. Of course, what it says might not help at all with export to ODT.