On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:20:43 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <[email protected]> said: > On 07/23/2012 13:39, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:32:34 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <[email protected]> said: >>> Arabic, which is finally displayed from right-to-left, works in >>> windowed mode, but for me, it does not work correctly with "-nw": >>> While it is displayed correctly in a LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Konsole (KDE >>> terminal), the order of the letters is changed just by moving the >>> cursor through Arabic text. I do not think this is a problem with the >>> port, but either with my setup or with emacs-24.1 in general. >> >> Did you try other terminal, like mrxvt ? I think it's problem with terminal, >> and not Emacs, but I might be wrong.
> mrxvt and mrxvt-devel both do not display utf-8 at all. I tried > rxvt-unicode: While only some of the Arabic characters where displayed > correctly, the cursor was moving properly and it did not reorder the > characters. Emacs and the Emacs port seem to be fine. Finding and > setting up a terminal that works properly with Arabic seems to be the > problem. Sorry, I was talking about mlterm[1]. > My curiosity ends here. I cannot even read Arabic myself. I just > happen to know someone, who would like to use Arabic in Emacs with > auctex, but that person does not ever use "-nw". >>> For my use, I would be happy, if emacs-24.1 was the default in ports, soon. >> >> Sure, it will be. I'd some personal issues over past weeks which are not >> rectified so less slacking, more hacking. s/not/now/ > Sorry, if my statement sounded demanding. It was not meant to be at > all. I just wanted to summarize that the issues I found are not with > the port, I consider them extremely minor, and I will use emacs-24.1 > from now on. I think my typo confused it, sorry. I'll commit it by this weekend hopefully. Also any issues with Emacs, should be reported to emacs-devel[2] for better resolution, unless it's something FreeBSD port specific. References: [1] http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel/ Thanks -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 Sent from my Emacs
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