Re: [emacs-bidi] status? news?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Yotam Medini wrote:

> > The main difficulty in logical to visual conversion is not the decision 
> > which character should be rendered right to left and which the other way 
> > around: this is relatively easy.  The problem is how to make this 
> > reordering part of the Emacs display engine.
> 
> So let's postpone the delicate questions such as how to 
> automatically handle exclamation marks to a later release.

That was just a btw.  I wondered whether the technology has advanced 
enough to realize that some of the results of UTR9 are flawed.  I agree 
that Emacs has a long way to go before this issue becomes important.