Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alex Schroeder <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 19:07:51 +0100
> 
> TAKAHASHI Naoto <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Just for your info: here, Handa and I have already succeeded in
> > displaying Arabic letters using Emacs-21.0.104.  They are represented
> > in the mule-unicode-0100-24ff charset.  The buffer contains only basic
> > forms; appropriate glyph variations are selected on the fly, using a
> > mechanism similar to font-lock, and displayed on the screen.

Btw, if the buffer is left unchanged, how can Emacs print the text
correctly (with "M-x lpr-buffer" etc.)?

> Ok, then I will not worry about this at all.  If we need to show some
> Arabic, we can use the mule Arabic charsets.  I don't think we'll drop
> support for those, will we?

If the switch to Unicode happens, I think the plan is to retain only
the Unicode Arabic characters.