From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:37:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d3zpco4e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100228063025.GA24197@tomas>
> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:30:25 +0100
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
>
> Yes, but as has been mentioned in this thread, Emacs handles that
> already (e.g. in Indic fonts). But alas, not in left-to-right mode.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You meant right-to-left, I presume. (Actually, pure right-to-left is
easy: just reverse everything. The hard problem is, languages such as
Arabic need bidirectional editing, where the direction changes
dynamically depending on the surrounding characters. Adding _that_ to
Emacs is a tough job.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-28 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-26 6:34 Arabic font for gnu emacs 石田惣一
2010-02-26 9:35 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-02-26 9:40 ` 石田惣一
[not found] ` <mailman.1924.1267177006.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-26 11:51 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-26 12:12 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-27 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-27 4:01 ` Jason Rumney
2010-02-27 10:36 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-02-28 6:30 ` tomas
2010-02-28 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-03-01 6:48 ` tomas
[not found] ` <06492382-7709-487E-8FCB-8CAFBD2DD4C7@mac.com>
2010-02-27 0:26 ` 石田惣一
2010-02-27 15:49 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1988.1267285761.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-27 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] <mailman.1920.1267175843.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-26 11:52 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-27 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
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