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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org
Subject: Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:09:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87occge1ga.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Or8T0-0004zO-EO@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:00:30 -0400")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> And another question: AFAIU, an LGSTRING specifies characters as
> Unicode codepoints, while the Windows Uniscribe APIs expect wchar_t
> wide characters, which on Windows means UTF-16.  This means we should
> encode the codepoints in LGSTRINGs to UTF-16 before passing them to
> Uniscribe, rather than passing them unaltered, right?  The current
> code will break for characters whose Unicode codepoints are beyond the
> BMP, right?

Theortically, yes. In practice I don't think any of the scripts that we
use the shaping engine for lie beyond the BMP.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-02 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-26  1:10 Arabic support Kenichi Handa
2010-08-27  9:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-28 10:15   ` Amit Aronovitch
2010-08-29  5:07     ` James Cloos
2010-08-29  5:13     ` James Cloos
2010-08-30  2:07     ` Kenichi Handa
2010-08-30 13:42       ` Amit Aronovitch
2010-08-30 14:11         ` [emacs-bidi] " Amit Aronovitch
2010-09-03  7:35           ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-03  7:54             ` [emacs-bidi] " Amit Aronovitch
2010-09-01  2:55         ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-01  4:58           ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-01  5:06             ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-01  7:12           ` [emacs-bidi] " Stefan Monnier
2010-09-03  7:17             ` Kenichi Handa
2010-08-30  7:47   ` Kenichi Handa
2010-08-30 14:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-01  2:17       ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-01  3:47         ` "Martin J. Dürst"
2010-09-02  7:45           ` 大嶋 俊祐
2010-09-02  9:31             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-02 12:58               ` "Martin J. Dürst"
2010-09-02 14:13                 ` [emacs-bidi] " Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-01  6:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-01  7:08           ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-01 17:55             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-02  2:13               ` Jason Rumney
2010-09-02 11:53             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-02 12:00               ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-02 13:09                 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2010-09-02 14:29                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-02 14:37                     ` [emacs-bidi] " Jason Rumney
2010-09-02 13:01               ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-02 14:04                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-03  1:00                   ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-03  9:16                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-03 10:18                       ` David Kastrup
2010-09-03 11:08                       ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-03 14:54                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-03 13:25                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-03 14:32                       ` Amit Aronovitch
2010-09-03 14:43                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04  7:13                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-06  6:04                         ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-04 15:29                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-02 13:48       ` Jason Rumney
2010-09-02 14:49         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-06 13:45   ` Thamer Mahmoud
2010-09-07  4:22     ` TAKAHASHI Naoto

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