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Re: [emacs-bidi] Emacs for Arabic
From: |
Nadim Shaikli |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Emacs for Arabic |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:48:30 -0700 (PDT) |
Takahashi-san, first and foremost thank you again for your help and
interest in Arabic and the various issues there-in. A couple of
things;
1. I'm attaching a very simple patch against what's currently hanging
of the FTP site that makes some minor modifications and corrects
a couple of encodings - do please apply it.
2. Regarding the "simplified" Bidi, could I suggest the following
rather simple addition. Pseudo-code would get the point across
simpler.
if ( first_char_is_RTL )
Assume entire line is Right-To-Left
else
/* default */
Assume entire line is Left-To-Right
first_char_is_RTL
{
/* Look at the first character within a line to see and
note its encoding, skip all punctuations (ie. '-', '+',
'*', etc)
*/
if (first_char is punctuation )
first_char = get_next_char;
if (
(first_char <= 0x060C && first_char >= 0x0670) ||
(first_char <= 0xfe70 && ...)
...
)
return 1;
return 0;
}
This would really make things a great deal more usable when it comes
to looking at file that contain both Latin and RTL lines.
3. Your comment about "Handa's available time" pertains to modifying
the code to upload this to emacs' live CVS ? In other words, this
work/effort will make it to emacs' proper repository, correct ?
So that we can expect emacs-21.3 (or emacs-21.4) once released to
have this as native support.
Thanks again for all your help/support.
- Nadim
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patch_arabic_mods
Description: patch_arabic_mods
Re: [emacs-bidi] Emacs for Arabic, TAKAHASHI Naoto, 2002/07/01
Re: [emacs-bidi] Emacs for Arabic, TAKAHASHI Naoto, 2002/07/02
Re: [emacs-bidi] Emacs for Arabic, TAKAHASHI Naoto, 2002/07/03