From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Cloos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bidi,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Re: Arabic support Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:07:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83bp8oml9c.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283059871 19379 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2010 05:31:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:31:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kenichi Handa , emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Amit Aronovitch Original-X-From: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 29 07:31:08 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpaTz-0002pC-9E for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:31:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OpaTy-0006F2-IJ for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36402 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OpaTt-0006EH-H1 for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpaTs-0003AS-GH for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com ([207.210.242.212]:35406) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpaTq-00039q-Fv; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:30:58 -0400 Original-Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 309D14018A; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:30:34 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1283059858; bh=OHCyoHwGJ3yY6RdhB4qUDmYG6XSzIDWuhJihK1tE68g=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=wf/ZRTiyJyBU5E60eQr+TiGKe0SYVWaN499vUasPw70kym88StbmG5a7S8pglHH/z eFbUqwHdYSny6nmDAKiVXiCjZNeOTimVNPnZk9DPuggTQ2AMjXTanKB+vQBLaQ3QSY U5MOMKBxy+bzW+QXKimm+oYHYTLZhe2TZi5H2oDM= Original-Received: from carbon.jhcloos.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F171D59D8; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:07:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Amit Aronovitch's message of "Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:15:44 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAI1J REFUOE+lU9ESgCAIg64P1y+ngUdxhl5H8wFbbM0OmUiEhKkCYaZThXCo6KE5sCbA1DDX3genvO4d eBQgEMaM5qy6uWk4SfBYfdu9jvBN9nSVDOKRtwb+I3epboOsOX5pZbJNsBJFvmQQ05YMfieIBnYX FK2N6dOawd97r/e8RjkTLzmMsiVgrAoEugtviCM3v2WzjgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Copyright: Copyright 2009 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Original-Lines: 13 X-Hashcash: 1:30:100829:aronovitch@gmail.com::trgdVJyOCmfmdOWO:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000+5ibI X-Hashcash: 1:30:100829:eliz@gnu.org::Fn/EDOWfB6anv5XO:0000S1OjE X-Hashcash: 1:30:100829:emacs-bidi@gnu.org::Mc7KdwqMz5YgJA0X:000000000000000000000000000000000000000000fHbi0 X-Hashcash: 1:30:100829:emacs-devel@gnu.org::MiXt4V2z3Ud32K7s:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000SI2yt X-Hashcash: 1:30:100829:handa@m17n.org::mrSFxB1RbHDuEWPy:00C4+Tg X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-bidi@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of Emacs support for multi-directional text." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bidi:774 gmane.emacs.devel:129380 Archived-At: >>>>> "AA" =3D=3D Amit Aronovitch writes: AA> b) Arabic keyboard has the ligature "Lam-Alef" (U+FEFB) on the key m= arked AA> "B" in qwerty keyboards. When I type this in emacs, I get Lam and Ale= f AA> (which are auto-shaped correctly as the proper ligature). Emacs' Arabic keyboard is based on a patch I proposed, which in turn is based on typing the relevant keys with the X11 keyboard set to the Arabic keyboard from xkeyboard-config. The mapping of U+FEFB, U+FEF9, U+FEF7 and U+FEF5 to the strings "=D9=84=D8=A7", "=D9=84=D8=A5", "=D9=84=D8=A3",= "=D9=84=D8=A2" (I hope those pasted correctly) come from a patch to libX11's utf-8 Compose file which I pushe= d=20 and which was written and submitted by Khaled Hosny, who has been quite active