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Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status.
From: |
Yair Friedman (Jerusalem) |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status. |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Dec 2001 12:24:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> One reason that I asked was that, in anticipation for what you did, I added
> to Emacs 8859-8 tables the information about the diacriticals and
> directional formatting codes, taken from SI1311-2, in those slots which
> 8859-8 leaves undefined. And another Emacs maintainer just asked me what
> was the rationale for adding codepoints that aren't in iso8859.
I've seen them yes.
>
> Btw, I heard that Israel's SI intends to submit a proposal to ISO to
> include those codepoints in iso8859. Is that true?
I heard so too but you might want to ask Jonathan Rosenne.
> If you have a Unicode font installed that covers the Hebrew characters, and
> if you get the latest CVS sources of Emacs (by anon CVS access to the
> development tree), then you should be able to use the Unicode Hebrew
> characters out of the box. No work required, just turn on a couple of
> minor modes that make it possible.
I have some Unicode fonts, for the time being I', CVS-challenged :-)
But the major thing I don't like in the "Unicode is just an additional
charset" approach is the oddities it causes. In particular,
mule-unicode-0100-24ff is splitting the Hebrew segment into two
pages. So you can't "run" over the characters without encountering
"invalid characters" (Just like EBCDIC).
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., (continued)
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/23
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status.,
Yair Friedman (Jerusalem) <=
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/12/20