Re: bidi, hebrew: files may need to be utf-8 with a byte order mark

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 21:48:25 +0100
> 
>    > If you mean support for changes introduced in Unicode 6.3, then Emacs
>    > supports that since v25.1.  But again, what does that have to do with
>    > keyboard layouts?
> 
> Well as I said keyman software provides (not sure about the license)
> free keyboard layouts for different platforms including iOS. 
> 
> So in order to have my favorite phonetic hebrew layout for keyman, I
> need to modify certain files, (like for example
> /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/il as  in unix based systems) 
> and submit these as patch. 
> 
> These modified files need that specific UTF8 support I mentioned and
> that is why the keyman maintainers proposed to use visual editor.

I understand that, but the changes in bidi processing that were
introduced in Unicode 6.3 should have no effect on any keyboard layout
files.