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[emacs-bidi] Re: emacs-bidi for MS Windows?
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Janusz S. Bień |
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[emacs-bidi] Re: emacs-bidi for MS Windows? |
Date: |
12 Aug 2002 08:24:50 +0200 |
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On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:
>
> > > My main and important questions is: should Emacs-bidi compile with
> > > Mingw and work on MS Windows?
> >
> > No idea. It has been tested only with the X Window System.
>
> One problem with the Windows port of Emacs is that some of the Windows
> output routines do logical-to-visual reordering internally. Try
> displaying etc/HELLO on Windows in an unpatched Emacs 21.x and look at
> the Hebrew greeting: it will be displayed correctly in visual order,
> right to left, even though Emacs sent the logical-order string to the
> display! Now move point with C-f across the Hebrew greeting, and you
> will see it displayed in the logical order(!).
I think this should be considered as a bug in NT Emacs 21.x and
properly reported. You are definitely the right person to do it.
>
> So I expect some problems with bidi Emacs on Windows. The
> Windows-specific display code should somehow disable the automatic
> reordering performed by the Windows runtime.
>
Let's make the NT Emacs team aware of the problem as soon as possible.
Best regards
Janusz
--
,
dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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