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Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode
From: |
Matan Ninio |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode |
Date: |
09 Nov 2001 14:55:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> > From: TAKAHASHI Naoto <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:23:10 +0900 (JST)
> >
> > "Eli Zaretskii" writes:
> >
> > > Btw, if the buffer is left unchanged, how can Emacs print the text
> > > correctly (with "M-x lpr-buffer" etc.)?
what about "ps-print-buffer-with-faces"? it manages to catch other
face-changes by font-lock. (or is that a silly idea?)
> >
> > If you have an intelligent Arabic printer, it could do the glyph
> > selection by itself. Obviously, printers that accept iso8859-6 should
> > be able to do that. However, I do not know whether such printers
> > exist.
>
> Could people who use Arabic in other word processors please tell
> whether it is reasonable to expect such printers to exist?
>
> > Otherwise, we have to pass the content of the buffer to a filter for
> > glyph selection.
>
> This seems to be a good reason for a function which will perform such
> a transformation on a buffer.
>
> Also, is it customary in Arabic text processing to leave the text in a
> file without presentation forms applied, and rely on the editor to do
> that at display time? If not, this again would indicate that the
> changes should be permanent in the buffer, not only on the display.
>
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- Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode, (continued)
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode, TAKAHASHI Naoto, 2001/11/08
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode, TAKAHASHI Naoto, 2001/11/08
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode, TAKAHASHI Naoto, 2001/11/08
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode, TAKAHASHI Naoto, 2001/11/08
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode, TAKAHASHI Naoto, 2001/11/09