Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew characters categories

[Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)]

TAKAHASHI Naoto <address@hidden> writes:

>>> Also check the range of U+FB00 .. U+FB4F in Unicode; there are some
>>> precomposed Hebrew glyphs.  We can utilise them for displaying,
>>> although further composition may be required.
>
>> These are considered computability/discouraged.  They don't have to be
>> supported by the font.  In addition they don't exist in (future) 8859-8.
>
> I do not want to have them in the buffer, either.  However, they can
> be used for the displaying purpose.  Suppose that you have the
> sequence SHIN followed by DAGESH in the buffer.  Of course you can
> display the SHIN+DAGESH glyph by composing the SHIN glyph and the
> DAGESH glyph.  But you can also use the precomposed SHIN+DAGESH glyph
> U+FB49 for displaying without changing the buffer content.  And you
> know, precomposed glyphs look better than dynamically composed glyphs.

Good, I think I c an design glyphs for such a font, but who should it be
declared? How?  How to tell Emacs to use them?