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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: list-general@mohsen.1.banan.byname.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bidi and shaping problems in describe-input-method
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:30:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83haxz0wtg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwdjw1ny.fsf@m17n.org>

> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:30:25 +0900
> 
> > So, the simplest fix (and perhaps
> > the-right-thing-to-do) is to ALWAYS insert a
> > (ucs-insert 8204)‌ -- zero width non-joiner --
> > between the two characters in each and every
> > keyboard cell.
> 
> If we insert something unconditionally, I think inserting
> (propertize " " 'invisible t) is safer.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work: invisible characters are not handed
to the shaping engine, they are silently skipped by the display
engine.  So the characters are still joined.

We need something smarter here.  I'll let you and Mohsen find the
solution to this one.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-08 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-06 22:17 bidi and shaping problems in describe-input-method Mohsen BANAN
2012-03-07  4:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-07 18:49   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-07 21:32   ` Mohsen BANAN
2012-03-08 15:30     ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-08 18:24       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-08 23:48         ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-09  8:11           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-09 14:03             ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-09 16:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-10  2:55                 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-10 10:27                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-12  7:47                     ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-12 17:42                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-13  0:58                         ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-13  3:58                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-22  4:26                             ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-22 17:23                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-23  1:41                                 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-23 10:12                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-22 21:59                               ` Mohsen BANAN
2012-03-13  5:46                       ` Mohsen BANAN
2012-03-09  8:17           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-08 18:30       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-03-08 18:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-08 23:27           ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-08 23:19         ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-09  8:15           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-09  9:01             ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-03-09  9:45               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-09 10:02                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-09 14:11                   ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-09 11:19                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-03-09 11:41                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-09 14:56                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-03-09 13:54             ` Kenichi Handa
2012-03-09 16:15               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-08  4:30 ` Miles Bader

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