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Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:12:14 +0200 (IST) |
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:
> Latin-6 defines only one codepoint for each Arabic letter; glyph
> variations (word beginning, middle, end or isolated) are not
> represented.
That's what I knew, too.
So that means we cannot support Arabic presentation forms in the current
Emacs except in the mule-unicode-* character sets, is that correct?
Because IIRC, the Mule Arabic charset is based on iso8859-6, right?
> To release the modification, we need to get an official permission
> from the responsible section of our institute. A necessary procedure
> has just begun, but nobody knows how long it will take.
Perhaps in the meantime, you could publish a textual description of what
the code does. Then someone else could implement that without bumping
into copyright issues.