Re: Hebrew xlation of Emacs tutorial

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>
>> We certainly don't want it to be "merged into the emacs-unicode-2
>> branch" before Emacs 23 is released: emacs-unicode-2 is a major
>> step forward and apparently close to release quality.
>
> I rather hope that Emacs 23 will come out with bidi support (since
> Unicode requires that), but that hope has no basis whatsoever.

Uh, I hope that Emacs 23 will come out in this decade still...

>> There are also other issues which should probably be addressed when
>> reworking the display engine for bidi, like composite character
>> support and antialiasing
>
> I'm not aware of any such issues, but then the implications of bidi
> redisplay were never discussed in detail.

Oh, that is not as much an implication of bidi redisplay but rather of
missing display features of Emacs in general.  "composite character"
may be the wrong word, it is "compositing"?  Things like accents that
are supposed to overprint the following character.

Emacs does not cater for them yet, neither does it for antialiased
font display (unless we are talking isolated branches or ports).  I
thought that it would be probably imprudent to address those missing
features in isolation from bidi support, since the solutions likely
have some overlap.

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