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: delete-char and composed characters Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:01:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224921735 1110 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2008 08:02:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:02:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 25 10:03:16 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kte78-00041F-Fc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:03:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34797 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kte62-0007Ys-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:02:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kte5z-0007Y9-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kte5y-0007Xh-SZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55489 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kte5y-0007Xe-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:59707) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kte5y-00013K-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kte5x-0005qA-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:02:01 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.215.238]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K9A00CBKBPQSOF0@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:03:33 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104984 Archived-At: > From: Kenichi Handa > CC: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:49:57 +0900 > > In article , Eli Zaretskii 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.