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Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:15:33 +0200 |
> From: "Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:55:26 +0200
>
> But sometime the user does want the text to look like the output of the
> UAX#9 consider:
> "START DATE: 01-JAN-2000." which is displayed as
> ".2000-NAJ-01 :ETAD TRATS"
Really? What implementation produces that? Is that again the
reference implementation, where `-' has a bidi type that is different
from what UAX#9 says?
> > I think the only way to work reasonably well in such cases is to look
> > at preceding and following characters, and implement some of Ehud's
> > wisdom to fix UAX#9 lossage.
>
> The following characters might not exist (yet), and generally inserting
> bidi characters beyond the users back is a risky business.
I agree that we should minimize the insertion of formatting codes,
but there are a few specific cases where UAX#9 does nonsensical
things, which users won't forgive us.
- Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs, (continued)
- Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/19
- Re: [emacs-bidi] debugging visual-to-logical, Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/19
- Re: [emacs-bidi] debugging visual-to-logical, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/19
- Re: [emacs-bidi] debugging visual-to-logical, Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/19
- Re: [emacs-bidi] debugging visual-to-logical, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/19
- Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs, Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/11/19
- Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/19
- Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs, Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/11/20
- Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/20
- Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs, Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/11/21
- Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs, Ehud Karni, 2001/11/21
- Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs, Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/11/22
- Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/22
- Re: [emacs-bidi] editing text in "visual mode", Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/22
- Re: [emacs-bidi] editing text in "visual mode", Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/22
- Re: [emacs-bidi] editing text in "visual mode", Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/22
- Re: [emacs-bidi] editing text in "visual mode", Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/22
- Re: [emacs-bidi] editing text in "visual mode", Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/22
- Re: [emacs-bidi] editing text in "visual mode", Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/23
- Re: [emacs-bidi] editing text in visual mode, Ehud Karni, 2001/11/23