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Re: [emacs-bidi] status? news?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] status? news? |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:27:15 +0200 (IST) |
> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:37:21 +0330 (IRT)
> From: Roozbeh Pournader <address@hidden>
>
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Could you please elaborate on these problems with next text lines?
>
> With implicit bidi support (with LRM and RLM, but without LRE, RLE,
> LRO, RLO, and PDF), you can first break the lines, and then apply bidi to
> each line separately for reordering before the display.
>
> With explicit support, you should first do bidi on the whole paragraph,
> then break the lines, and finally reorder the text. This is considered
> hard to do in many applications.
Nevertheless, the Unicode algorithm specifically says that
line-breaking should happen _before_ reordering. Is that a bug in
UTR9?