* Best way to type arabic in emacs
@ 2009-12-14 21:39 Enrico Schwass
2009-12-15 5:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Enrico Schwass @ 2009-12-14 21:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Help-gnu-emacs
Hello,
can emacs cvs handle arabic characters? What input method and what
language system works best? So far I can only see single characters.
How can I switch to RTL?
Thank you
Enno
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* Re: Best way to type arabic in emacs
2009-12-14 21:39 Best way to type arabic in emacs Enrico Schwass
@ 2009-12-15 5:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2009-12-15 5:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Help-gnu-emacs
> From: Enrico Schwass <ennoausberlin@mac.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:39:21 +0100
> Cc:
>
> can emacs cvs handle arabic characters?
Yes, but it doesn't yet support bidirectional editing and display.
> So far I can only see single characters. How can I switch to RTL?
You can't, not just yet. Work is under way to add support for UAX#9
features, but it is not yet in the repository, and even when it will
be, it's a long way from being complete or even anywhere near that.
Volunteers are welcome to join the effort (followup on
emacs-devel@gnu.org, if you want to volunteer).
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* Re: Best way to type arabic in emacs
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@ 2009-12-15 7:55 ` B. T. Raven
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From: B. T. Raven @ 2009-12-15 7:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Enrico Schwass <ennoausberlin@mac.com>
>> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:39:21 +0100
>> Cc:
>>
>> can emacs cvs handle arabic characters?
>
> Yes, but it doesn't yet support bidirectional editing and display.
>
>> So far I can only see single characters. How can I switch to RTL?
>
> You can't, not just yet. Work is under way to add support for UAX#9
> features, but it is not yet in the repository, and even when it will
> be, it's a long way from being complete or even anywhere near that.
>
> Volunteers are welcome to join the effort (followup on
> emacs-devel@gnu.org, if you want to volunteer).
>
>
An interim toy solution not even amounting to a kludge is to input left
to right using medial forms everywhere and then, using regexes I
suppose, replace medial forms with the correct initial and final forms
before and after spaces. Finally use a linewise reverse-string function
on the whole buffer. Also, maybe in some contexts the stand-alone forms
would be acceptable. Then only string reversal is needed.
I don't know whether the arabic input method has everything you need or
not. (Type C-x ret C-\ arabic.)It would be nice to have an arabic-babel
method (like the Greek-babel one) for non-native Arab language typists.
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