From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:48:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20100301064840.GA18910@tomas> References: <9eeaa8101002252234l43e989fcwda58310319d1517c@mail.gmail.com> <8842b49a-0d41-481d-bc10-538d3970b531@m35g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <326F57F5-7956-4E88-BCF8-BE3DE9FC7DF7@Web.DE> <20100228063025.GA24197@tomas> <83d3zpco4e.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267426092 1110 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2010 06:48:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 06:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 01 07:48:08 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1NlzQF-0007kA-Jc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:48:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlzQE-00037U-MV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NlzP4-0002dF-NI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:46:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39551 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlzP2-0002c5-O5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:46:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlzP2-0003Lb-7E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:46:52 -0500 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:43760 helo=www.elogos.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlzOz-0003Kq-E8; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:46:49 -0500 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5041890050; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:48:40 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83d3zpco4e.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72261 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 > >=20 > > 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 - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLi2NIBcgs9XrR2kYRArqYAJ9tlF0SJGqBlk/7GLAYtIq7iWFwyACcCTh3 2l7xgS2dcnYgfUW4cZ6V4l8=3D =3Dwukx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----