[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#6998: closed (24.0.50; bidi: lines starting with neutral types have the wrong base direction?)

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> 24.0.50; bidi: lines starting with neutral types have the wrong base	direction?
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> Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:39:06 +0300
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> While investigating a crash I came across this problem.
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> By default in Emacs, lines starting with Other Neutral types (in this
> case `*') seem to be following the direction of the line before them,
> and perhaps not being considered as separate paragraphs. This makes
> Emacs display files differently than the output of fribidi (gedit,
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> For example, I have a file with the following content:
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> * ARABIC
> * abcdef
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> I'd expect to see:
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>                              CIBARA *
> * abcdef                             
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> But in Emacs it's shown as:
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>                              CIBARA *
>                              abcdef *
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> Another example is:
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> * First
> [BLANK_LINE]
> ARABIC
> * Second
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> What I expect:
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> * First
> [BLANK_LINE]
>                                CIBARA
> * Second
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> What is shown in Emacs:
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> * First
> [BLANK_LINE]
>                                CIBARA
>                              Second *
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> This seems like a bug to me.
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> Tests were done using -Q --eval "(setq-default bidi-display-reordering t)".
> In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.6 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
>  of 2010-09-07
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> Thanks.
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> Thamer
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> Re: 24.0.50;	bidi: lines starting with neutral types have the wrong base direction?
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> Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:29:44 +0300
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> I did some testing, and I found out that the differences between Emacs
> and other apps (fribidi, gedit, kwrite, etc) are explained by the other
> apps' use of "line-based reordering", while Emacs uses
> "paragraph-based reordering" (perhaps to avoid filled paragraphs
> having more than one direction). So I guess this is not a bug per se.
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> However, I still see inconsistent rendering of the second example
> given above. But I'll file a more specific bug for that.
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> Closing.
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> Thamer
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