From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bidi,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Arabic support Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:08:55 +0900 Message-ID: References: <83bp8oml9c.fsf@gnu.org> <83r5hbi3ur.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283512156 10524 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2010 11:09:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 03 13:09:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-emacs-bidi@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 1OrU8u-0006y6-Fv for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:09:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58668 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrU8t-00017U-Nb for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51331 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrU8q-00017O-OL for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrU8p-00068j-9G for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:09:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]:62928) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrU8l-00067x-3j; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.115]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id o83B8xaN013024; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:09:00 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp1.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id o83B8xkO000683; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:08:59 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id o83B8xow028865; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:08:59 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OrU8f-0003W3-7Y; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:08:58 +0900 In-Reply-To: <83r5hbi3ur.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:16:44 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: emacs-bidi@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of Emacs support for multi-directional text." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bidi:813 gmane.emacs.devel:129642 Archived-At: In article <83r5hbi3ur.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Yes. And auto-composition-mode cannot be turned off for any > > scripts that it is not enough to display glyphs > > corresponding to characters; they are all Indics, some East > > Asians, Arabic, Hebrew, etc. > Are you sure Hebrew belongs to this list? What Hebrew characters need > to be shaped together, but still displayed as separate glyphs (as > opposed to the diacriticals which are composed into the same glyph > with the base character)? ??? I didn't write such a thing. What I listed are scripts "that it is not enough to display glyphs corresponding to characters". More precisely, "... that it is not enough to display glyphs corresponding to characters at normal positions suggested by each glyph metrics.". --- Kenichi Handa handa@m17n.org