Re: [emacs-bidi] status? news?

[Ehud Karni]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:15:42 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

I'll second Eli's call, We been through this Visual vs. Logical.

For programmers, my hebeng.el (visual) package is enough. For most of
the other users who need it for free writing, a Logical order is a
must. As for UNICODE disadvantages, we lost this battle, The UNICODE
is the De-facto standard (also by Microsoft rivals - Mozilla, Linux).

Ehud.


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