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[emacs-bidi] Re: emacs-bidi for MS Windows?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
[emacs-bidi] Re: emacs-bidi for MS Windows? |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Aug 2002 20:24:37 +0300 |
> From: address@hidden (Janusz S. =?iso-8859-2?q?Bie=F1?=)
> Date: 12 Aug 2002 08:24:50 +0200
> >
> > 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.
I already did, when I discovered the problem about a year ago.
Of course, it never does any harm to repeat the report. But as long
as bidi Emacs is not a reality, there's no urgent need to bug the
NTEmacs maintainers about this matter.