Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:30:25 +0100
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
> 
> Yes, but as has been mentioned in this thread, Emacs handles that
> already (e.g. in Indic fonts). But alas, not in left-to-right mode.
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You meant right-to-left, I presume.  (Actually, pure right-to-left is
easy: just reverse everything.  The hard problem is, languages such as
Arabic need bidirectional editing, where the direction changes
dynamically depending on the surrounding characters.  Adding _that_ to
Emacs is a tough job.)