From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Hebrew xlation of Emacs tutorial Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:40:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20070202014816.c691bb82.yotam.medini@gmail.com> <20070202172551.3a25b37f.yotam.medini@gmail.com> <858xffgqkb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85r6t7f42d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170538887 6162 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2007 21:41:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 03 22:41:19 2007 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 4.50) id 1HDSdK-00017C-Nf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:41:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HDSdL-00009S-ET for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:41:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HDSd2-000066-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:41:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HDSd0-00005V-Vf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:41:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HDSd0-00005O-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:40:58 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HDScz-00050v-Dl; Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:40:57 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-209-148.inter.net.il [80.230.209.148]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HAU97560 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 23:40:51 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <85r6t7f42d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:12:42 +0100) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (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:65835 Archived-At: > Cc: cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: David Kastrup > Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:12:42 +0100 > > 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. You mean combining character sequences (and other compatibility and canonical decompositions). Yes, Emacs does not yet fully support them. And there are several other features codified by Unicode that AFAIK we still don't support. > 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. The only overlap I know of is that Hebrew and Arabic have diacriticals, so any support for combining sequences will have to include that.