From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:50:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267239708 1031 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2010 03:01:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:01:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 27 04:01:43 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 1NlCw1-0002lx-Jn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:01:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlCce-0004Yl-9N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:41:40 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe21.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Zv6vmITB9X4EDcjoVUOQEUKrHec= Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:50:14 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177142 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:72177 Archived-At: > hi. I would like to type in Arabic in GnuEmacs. Given the lack of bidi-support in Emacs-23, arabic is just not very well supported, so I guess what you're seeing is that as a result noone has tried to get arabic layout and rendering to work well (yet). Emacs-24 will hopefully include bidi-support, at which point you shouuld expect it to render arabic text just as beautifully as any other program. Stefan