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Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic implementation
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic implementation |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Nov 2001 19:25:42 +0200 |
> From: Alex Schroeder <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:22:28 +0100
>
> Can you tell me how to identify the characters with strong right to
> left property?
I'd suggest to look into the Unicode character database (the file
UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode site). Each character there is
classified for the bidi algorithm already.
> What I probably need is a string with all the characters in it which
> have the right to left property. Would that be feasible?
If all the Arabic characters have the same category, you can use the
feature of char-tables where setting a single entry for the generic
character has the effect of setting it for the entire charset. (I
thought that's why you've chosen category tables as the implementation
for this; I know that's why I suggested to use char-tables.)