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Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods
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Scot Becker |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods |
Date: |
Tue, 11 May 2010 22:00:14 +0100 |
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.
Ah, right. Thanks. Meanwhile I'll try to keep playing in the bidi sandbox.
Keep well,
Scot
- [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, 2010/05/11
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods,
Scot Becker <=
Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Yair F, 2010/05/07
Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/05/07