Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions

[joakim]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:55:19 +0200
>> 
>> It works mostly the same as embedding images. From what youre
>> writing below it sounds like the display of images will work as
>> before, therefore my patch will apply, hopefully nicely, on top of
>> bidi. Correct?
>
> Correct.  Images and any other objects will be reordered according to
> UAX#9, and as a single entity.  IOW, imagine that instead of the
> embedded widget the buffer has a single character U+FFFC (OBJECT
> REPLACEMENT CHARACTER).  The reordering code will treat the embedded
> widget as it would treat that character.  That means, in particular,
> that if the widget is embedded in text written in some right-to-left
> script, the text that precedes the widget will be on the right of the
> widget, and text that follows it will be on the left.

Presumably I will also need to tell the widget to render its own text in
bidi mode. 

-- 
Joakim Verona