Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs

[tomas]

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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 06:37:53PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:30:25 +0100
> > From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Yes, but as has been mentioned in this thread, Emacs handles that
> > already (e.g. in Indic fonts). But alas, not in left-to-right mode.
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> You meant right-to-left, I presume.

Oops, yes, sorry.

>                                     (Actually, pure right-to-left is
> easy: just reverse everything.  The hard problem is, languages such as
> Arabic need bidirectional editing, where the direction changes
> dynamically depending on the surrounding characters.  Adding _that_ to
> Emacs is a tough job.)

Yes, I'm aware of that. I was just sloppy.

Regards, and thanks again for your work
- -- tomás
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