Re: [emacs-bidi] status? news?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:57:01 +0330 (IRT)
> From: Roozbeh Pournader <address@hidden>
> 
> That has been the reason I'm suggesting the visual buffer. (I agree that
> logical buffers are also needed, but they are much harder to implement
> smoothly, I believe).

We've beaten this to death in the past, I think.  Visual order has
disadvantages, and its advantages are mostly illusions: you simply
move the logical to visual transformation from the display phase to
input phase.

> > Therefore, I'd prefer this case to be handled correctly
> > automatically.  I cannot understand why doesn't UTR9 handle the exclam
> > like this by default.  Can you tell?
> 
> Yes. Exclamation mark is simply a netrual character.

Why does it have to be neutral?  Why isn't it treated as weak instead?