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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:48:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100301064840.GA18910@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d3zpco4e.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 06:37:53PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:30:25 +0100
> > From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Yes, but as has been mentioned in this thread, Emacs handles that
> > already (e.g. in Indic fonts). But alas, not in left-to-right mode.
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> You meant right-to-left, I presume.

Oops, yes, sorry.

>                                     (Actually, pure right-to-left is
> easy: just reverse everything.  The hard problem is, languages such as
> Arabic need bidirectional editing, where the direction changes
> dynamically depending on the surrounding characters.  Adding _that_ to
> Emacs is a tough job.)

Yes, I'm aware of that. I was just sloppy.

Regards, and thanks again for your work
- -- tomás
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-01  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26  6:34 Arabic font for gnu emacs 石田惣一
2010-02-26  9:35 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-02-26  9:40   ` 石田惣一
     [not found] ` <06492382-7709-487E-8FCB-8CAFBD2DD4C7@mac.com>
2010-02-27  0:26   ` 石田惣一
2010-02-27 15:49     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1988.1267285761.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-27 19:55       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] ` <mailman.1924.1267177006.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-26 11:51   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-26 12:12   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-27 14:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-27  4:01   ` Jason Rumney
2010-02-27 10:36     ` Peter Dyballa
2010-02-28  6:30       ` tomas
2010-02-28 16:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-01  6:48           ` tomas [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1920.1267175843.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-26 11:52 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-27  1:50 ` Stefan Monnier

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