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Re: [emacs-bidi] Summary of bidi branch?
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Summary of bidi branch? |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:58:29 +0300 |
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:20:33 +0200
>
> > Yes. In Yiddish, Hebrew letters are used as transliterations of
> > Latin letters.
>
> Uh, Eli? I know Yiddish.
I never assumed you didn't.
> Uh no. I need a way to write Yiddish with Hebrew letters, and so I
> was thinking of making emacs-bidi more interesting by adding (myself)
> another input encoding yielding Hebrew letters, based on the YIVO
> transliteration.
I think it would be a good addition, not only in the bidi Emacs.
> And I don't think we have any arabic input encoding in Emacs 22.
We do have the encoding (arabic-iso-8bit, albeit not thoroughly
supported), but not an input method.
> The only R-to-L script I can identify in Emacs 22 is Hebrew. Of
> course, Emacs 22 will render it L-to-R, but making it possible to
> _input_ the Unicode might increase the number of people willing to
> invest work into emacs-bidi.
If all you want is to input characters, and don't care about
displaying them correctly, then making an input method that produces
mule-unicode-* characters should be easy.
> >> The usual alphabet used with Yiddish is a slightly modified Hebrew
> >> alphabet (pronunciation is somewhat different from most Hebrew
> >> words
> >
> > There's no standard for Yiddish pronunciation, but most Yiddish
> > speakers use German pronunciation.
>
> Well, since Hebrew is used as a sort of phonetic spelling of Yiddish,
> there is at least a way to pronounce written Yiddish texts sort of
> regularly.
If you mean use Hebrew pronunciation, then I think that's not right: I
think the canonical Hebrew pronunciation is very different from
Yiddish, as Hebrew uses, for example, guttural sounds for some
consonants, and Yiddish does not.
- [emacs-bidi] Summary of bidi branch?, David Kastrup, 2007/03/28
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Summary of bidi branch?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/03/28
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- Re: [emacs-bidi] Summary of bidi branch?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/03/29
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