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bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:41:13 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: mohamed.hibti@gmail.com, 22786@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:43:03 +1030
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > But if there's no such hint, and all we have is the text itself, then
> > the UBA determines the paragraph direction from the first strong
> > directional character, and we then keep that direction until the
> > paragraph ends, which is indicated by an empty line. There's no way
> > around this, it's how the bidirectional display engine works.
> >
> > Specifically, we need a way to distinguish between the list of
> > languages on a Wikipedia page from the Al Jazeera home page. Can you
> > spot anything in the page sources that will allow such a distinction?
>
> Nope. But since Firefox is able to do this, that means that their bidi
> algo is doing something else than what Emacs' bidi algo is doing...
>
> So we have demonstrated that there is a way around this. :-)
The way around it is to support frames (or "side bars"). Then each
frame could have its own base paragraph direction. AFAICT, eww
doesn't support that yet.
> > In any case, I think it will be good to add a "Switch page direction"
> > menu item to EWW on the emacs-25 branch.
>
> Good idea; I'll all that.
Thanks.
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, (continued)
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/25
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Mohamed Hibti, 2016/02/25
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/25
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/26
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/26
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/27
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/28
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/28
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/28
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/28
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/29
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/29
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/28
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/28
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/28
- bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/29