[emacs-bidi] Re: state of BIDI within stable GNU emacs (UTF8) nikud

[Thamer Mahmoud]

[I had some trouble accessing this list through gnu.org, so my
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Gregg Reynolds <address@hidden> writes:

> I had to create an Arabic Quail package to get an Arabic keyboard
> layout, e.g.
>

I have previously submitted a patch to emacs-dev with such additions
and other minor improvements for Arabic. It did not receive any
responses from emacs-dev, however.

Eli, any thoughts on the attached patch? Is there an interest in
seeing it checked in to Emacs proper? It's a trivial patch, but I'd be
willing to sign the GNU papers if necessary.

This makes distributing a minor mode for Arabic editing, or adapting
other Hebrew-specific packages for use with Arabic, alot easier.

The attached files include the following:

arabic.patch: 
      - Enable support for iso-8859-6. 
      - Add properly encoded Arabic characters to the HELLO file. 
      - Remove a block of code from code-pages.el that conflicts 
        with the new iso-8859-6 support.  

arabic.el: Language file for Arabic.

arabic.el: quail input modes for Arabic and Persian.

Regards,
Thamer Mahmoud

arabic22.patch
Description: patch

arabic.el
Description: language file

arabic.el
Description: quail file