From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 22786@debbugs.gnu.org, mohamed.hibti@gmail.com
Subject: bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:41:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831t7wc06e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878u25xyk0.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:43:03 +1030)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: mohamed.hibti@gmail.com, 22786@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:43:03 +1030
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > But if there's no such hint, and all we have is the text itself, then
> > the UBA determines the paragraph direction from the first strong
> > directional character, and we then keep that direction until the
> > paragraph ends, which is indicated by an empty line. There's no way
> > around this, it's how the bidirectional display engine works.
> >
> > Specifically, we need a way to distinguish between the list of
> > languages on a Wikipedia page from the Al Jazeera home page. Can you
> > spot anything in the page sources that will allow such a distinction?
>
> Nope. But since Firefox is able to do this, that means that their bidi
> algo is doing something else than what Emacs' bidi algo is doing...
>
> So we have demonstrated that there is a way around this. :-)
The way around it is to support frames (or "side bars"). Then each
frame could have its own base paragraph direction. AFAICT, eww
doesn't support that yet.
> > In any case, I think it will be good to add a "Switch page direction"
> > menu item to EWW on the emacs-25 branch.
>
> Good idea; I'll all that.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-23 22:50 bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 1:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 10:16 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24 18:18 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 18:24 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-25 5:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-25 11:08 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-25 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-26 5:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-26 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-28 4:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-28 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-28 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 2:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 4:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-01 0:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-01 8:55 ` Mohamed HIBTI
2016-02-29 2:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 4:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 23:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-01 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-02 17:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-02 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-01 0:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-01 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-02 17:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-02 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-03 5:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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