From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to recognize keyboard insertion?
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:37:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEC75C3.900@harpegolden.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83skczcwes.fsf@gnu.org>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1395 bytes --]
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> To simplify, this means that a `(' should be mirrored when surrounded
> by strong R2L characters, but not when surrounded by Latin characters
> or European digits.
>
It IS only mirrored when surrounded by rtl characters, that was
what I included the nonsense string for. When not so surrounded,
it, Shift-9 generates ")" /and it is shown as ")"/. Arabic keyboards
still have ( printed on 9, so I guess they work majority-rtl (which
would make sense).
> Alternatively, we will need to mirror characters even if their
> directionality is L
I don't see why. Other apps don't.
> For example, try typing "9*(4+5)" after switching to Arabic keyboard.
> What do you get?
>
9*)4+5(
surrounded:
ثثث9*)4+5(ثثث
- but that was when I typed the expression as if LtR (i.e. hitting 9
first), I suspect an arabic person might type
ثثث(5+4)*9ثثث
- i.e. hitting ")" first when transcribing "9*(4+5)". Then it just
works I think as above (I'm including a screenshot from icedove just in
case)
> Quail cannot easily know the context: it can only mirror these
> characters always, which is not right, since the display will mirror
> them only if they are surrounded by strong R2L characters.
>
>
I expect that's in fact what arabic users expect, though an actual
arabic person might want to speak up...
[-- Attachment #2: rtlicedove1.png --]
[-- Type: image/png, Size: 68247 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-31 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-31 15:57 How to recognize keyboard insertion? Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 16:58 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 17:37 ` David De La Harpe Golden [this message]
2009-10-31 17:43 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 19:26 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 20:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 21:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 21:49 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-01 5:24 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-01 20:19 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 3:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-01 5:46 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 5:44 ` tomas
2009-11-01 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-01 20:09 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-02 5:03 ` tomas
2009-11-01 1:30 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-01 4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-01 5:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-01 13:59 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <837huac8gg.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-11-02 14:49 ` Ehud Karni
2009-11-02 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4AEC75C3.900@harpegolden.net \
--to=david@harpegolden.net \
--cc=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.