Re: bidi and shaping problems in describe-input-method

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:30:51 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > If we insert something unconditionally, I think inserting
> > (propertize " " 'invisible t) is safer.
> 
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work: invisible characters are not handed
> to the shaping engine, they are silently skipped by the display
> engine.  So the characters are still joined.
> 
> We need something smarter here.

One obvious possibility is to turn off auto-composition-mode.  But
when I tried that, unexpected characters showed up in some cells,
e.g. in the T cell an in the G cell.  I guess some characters shown in
the Arabic keyboard layout do need auto-composition-mode?