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Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods |
Date: |
Tue, 11 May 2010 19:15:03 +0300 |
> From: Scot Becker <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 07:23:34 +0100
>
> OK, Emacs compiled and bidi working. Very cool.
Thanks for testing.
> A few questions:
>
> Should I expect yanking a bit of unicode bidi Hebrew text with niqqud,
> copied to the system clipboard from a browser, and yanked into a bidi
> buffer, to work (it doesn't. vowels don't sit under their letters)?
No, this doesn't work yet. There are two problems:
. Displaying vowels under (or above, as the case may be) the letters
is supposed to be done via the "character composition" feature of
Emacs, whereby several distinct characters are drawn as a single
glyph. However, character composition doesn't yet work with
bidi-reordered text. Kenichi Handa, who implemented character
composition in Emacs, is now working on making that compatible with
bidi reordering, so I hope this will soon work.
. The necessary tables for composing niqqud with letters are not yet
set up in Emacs out of the box. So display of niqqud does not work
even without bidi reordering. Yair is working on that, and he
already posted the initial variant of the necessary settings on
emacs-devel a day or two ago.
When both these problems are resolved, you will be able to see niqqud
displayed correctly.
> You say in your above email that
>
> >Character composition does not yet work with bidi reordering, so
> >currently cantillation marks will not be displayed as you'd expect.
>
> which I took to mean that niqqud alone are already working.
See above: not yet. I used "cantillation marks" meaning the superset
of niqqud, to include dagesh and other marks.
- [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Yair F, 2010/05/06
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Scot Becker, 2010/05/06
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/05/07
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Michael Blaustein, 2010/05/07
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Scot Becker, 2010/05/07
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Yair F, 2010/05/07
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/05/07
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Scot Becker, 2010/05/11
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Scot Becker, 2010/05/11
Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Yair F, 2010/05/07
Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/05/07