From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete-char and composed characters
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:01:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <utzb1m7bi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KtXLp-0002V2-O8@etlken.m17n.org>
> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
> CC: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:49:57 +0900
>
> In article <uljwdydux.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > We should display the corresponding portion of the composite character
> > in reverse video, IMO.
>
> That doesn't work in general because, typically in Indic
> case, multiple characters are displayed by a signle font
> glyph.
What is the "prior art" in this area? how do other editors and word
processors handle this in Indic scripts?
In any case, the fact that this won't work in general does not mean we
shouldn't do it where it does work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-25 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-24 13:29 delete-char and composed characters Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-24 18:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-24 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-25 0:49 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-25 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-10-25 0:46 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-25 18:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-25 22:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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