From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:37:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83d3zpco4e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9eeaa8101002252234l43e989fcwda58310319d1517c@mail.gmail.com> <8842b49a-0d41-481d-bc10-538d3970b531@m35g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <326F57F5-7956-4E88-BCF8-BE3DE9FC7DF7@Web.DE> <20100228063025.GA24197@tomas> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267375146 12214 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2010 16:39:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:39:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 17:39:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlmAX-0004zJ-L2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:39:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlmAW-00037q-KZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NlmA5-00035C-55 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:38:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54535 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlmA3-000354-Fh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:38:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlmA2-00059m-Ik for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:38:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:33358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlmA2-00059g-AR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:38:30 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KYK004008UBWM00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:37:45 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.17.203]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KYK00IM48UWMMO0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:37:45 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20100228063025.GA24197@tomas> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72234 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:30:25 +0100 > From: tomas@tuxteam.de > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Jason Rumney > > 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.)