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: bidi and shaping problems in describe-input-method Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:58:31 +0200 Message-ID: <83ty1tw3rs.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331611113 21670 80.91.229.3 (13 Mar 2012 03:58:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: list-general@mohsen.1.banan.byname.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 13 04:58:29 2012 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 1S7IsW-0001RL-Pm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:58:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56436 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7IsW-0008Jb-5z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45185) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7IsT-0008JG-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:58:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7IsR-0006KM-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:58:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:52476) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7IsQ-0006KG-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M0T008001F30Q00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:58:21 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.179.236]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M0T007I21P8ULI0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:58:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:148995 Archived-At: > From: Kenichi Handa > Cc: list-general@mohsen.1.banan.byname.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:58:46 +0900 > > What we need is to display (only capital letters are Hebrew): > ... | HEB REW | ABC DEF | ... > as > ... | BEH WER | CBA FED | ... Right. > If none of LRO..PDF, LRE..PDF work, and if there's no easy > way to determine when to insert LRM, the only way is to > insert LRMs unconditionally. You can use bidi-string-mark-left-to-right, I think, which will refrain from inserting the LRM characters where possible.