On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Scot Becker <[email protected]> >> 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 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
