From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nadim Shaikli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.bidi Subject: Re: merge emacs-bidi into the main tree Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 11:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030809184334.19218.qmail@web14901.mail.yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060454725 3458 80.91.224.253 (9 Aug 2003 18:45:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 18:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: developer@arabeyes.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 09 20:45:24 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19lYiS-0007dF-00 for ; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 20:45:24 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19lYou-0004mj-00 for ; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 20:52:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19lYhN-0001mY-2D for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 14:44:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19lYhF-0001iE-B6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 14:44:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19lYgi-0001PV-Ie for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 14:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.136.225.53] (helo=web14901.mail.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 19lYgh-0001Nv-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 14:43:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [24.94.16.142] by web14901.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 11:43:34 PDT Original-To: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15859 gmane.emacs.bidi:130 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15859 --- Richard Stallman wrote: > [snip snip] > --- Alex Schroeder wrote: > There are a few imperfections, or so I hear, but when I -- as a > non-Arabic-speaker -- saw the Arabic glyphs rendered correctly on IRC > (using ERC, the Emacs IRC client) -- I was surprised! Yes, there may > be problems with the existing solution, but at least there *is* a > solution. > > What do Hebrew and Arab users think of it? Arabic support in m17n's emacs code was very usable and almost complete. There weren't that many issues left with it (most were minor) from a user's prospective, our only concern was making sure that excellent effort made its way into emacs' main trunk and I can see that there is movement in that direction which I too applaud and highly encourage (for whatever it's worth :-) For those that have not received all the emails, please read the following thread (courtesy of the emacs' mailing-lists) -- http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-08/msg00039.html Any other Arabic user comments (ie. Arabeyes people) ? PS: Thanks Alex again for getting the ball rolling... Regards, - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com