From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bidi, hebrew: files may need to be utf-8 with a byte order mark Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 23:13:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83zhsg15zu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pntcuz0l.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <834lao2qyy.fsf@gnu.org> <87h8eociej.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <831s5s2mq2.fsf@gnu.org> <874laogndy.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1546636341 31856 195.159.176.226 (4 Jan 2019 21:12:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 21:12:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uwe Brauer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 04 22:12:17 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gfWlM-0008B7-Gu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 22:12:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39007 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfWnT-0006Pf-Di for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:14:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49587) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfWmb-0006Ni-RF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:13:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfWmW-0002cg-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:13:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39022) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfWmW-0002cM-KA; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:13:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1895 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gfWmV-0004ZW-Qe; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:13:28 -0500 In-reply-to: <874laogndy.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Fri, 04 Jan 2019 21:48:25 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232176 Archived-At: > From: Uwe Brauer > Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 21:48:25 +0100 > > > If you mean support for changes introduced in Unicode 6.3, then Emacs > > supports that since v25.1. But again, what does that have to do with > > keyboard layouts? > > Well as I said keyman software provides (not sure about the license) > free keyboard layouts for different platforms including iOS. > > So in order to have my favorite phonetic hebrew layout for keyman, I > need to modify certain files, (like for example > /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/il as in unix based systems) > and submit these as patch. > > These modified files need that specific UTF8 support I mentioned and > that is why the keyman maintainers proposed to use visual editor. I understand that, but the changes in bidi processing that were introduced in Unicode 6.3 should have no effect on any keyboard layout files.