From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.bidi Subject: Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:37:31 +0800 Message-ID: <87d3swdxec.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> References: <83bp8oml9c.fsf@gnu.org> <87occge1ga.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283438279 3159 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2010 14:37:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 02 16:37:57 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OrAvM-0005GN-P9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:37:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42494 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrAvM-0001iq-4x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:37:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38453 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrAvB-0001gA-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:37:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrAv9-0005Cm-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-px0-f169.google.com ([209.85.212.169]:36147) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrAv5-0005Bk-5s; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: by pxi5 with SMTP id 5so261996pxi.0 for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:37:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:received:from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=jRvCisC45kWydFeYqIxz8zSOjxNcy+sh8sB0vzTzM4k=; b=PyJteO7+KIadf7uAXiSQTbS2tK8WCKsaz1B8J7bfm1TXKnYmOJ7yXedfB6zFjogma4 PUq/3ov0oNgmoUqIpAwBz939YU3jlODY3VcIkUBY8OVXJnincF8QOP52O6w/gRfLEypB arBREukehW8qljHEfXlenVisJXFoX2YRdpcMo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=NA/KgTtjfNoTmW0Dvst9ziNlszgF3JGFLOKVvomeiQqv62pNJqbhWycfw0lOhFqnjt 28o4BoVdarqvfKXprIkMy6340AxRbiwof6Z16TWlCUJpXmRn73ZI6rqj3ogBMLvQBssQ lrQF+uNM1X4k67ZoOxjm/jw1yM4bMixv+gaHw= Original-Received: by 10.142.222.12 with SMTP id u12mr8090126wfg.247.1283438257740; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([202.87.221.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q27sm294751wfc.18.2010.09.02.07.37.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 84A2B156E; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 22:37:31 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:29:36 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129597 gmane.emacs.bidi:805 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Jason Rumney >> Cc: handa@m17n.org, emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:09:57 +0800 >> >> In practice I don't think any of the scripts that we use the shaping >> engine for lie beyond the BMP. > > By "scripts that we use" you mean scripts supported by Uniscribe? > scripts supported by Emacs? scripts available on most Windows systems? > something else? Emacs. > I do see some useful characters beyond the BMP, e.g. the 1DXXX block > for mathematical symbols, 1F1XX for parenthesized and circled Latin > letters, CJK Ideographs extensions in the 20XXX and 2AXXX ranges, etc. Right, but none of these require shaping AFAICS.