Re: Being constructive [Was: Nit-picking]

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Continuing and perhaps even finishing my bidi display code has been a
> pipe dream for several years now, so it's probably not even worth
> mentioning.
>   

A smaller task might be to make use of the functionality of libotf/m17n 
and uniscribe (and any Mac equivalent) to provide bidi support on those 
platforms which offer underlying support.  It will only be as good as 
the support offered by the underlying platform, only available in GUI 
frames, and even then only if Emacs is compiled against those libraries, 
but it is better than the current state of no bidi support at all.  If 
work is started now, I think we can get this in to Emacs 23.  I don't 
know how far emacs-bidi is from completion, but I'm guessing it will be 
at least Emacs 24 material?