Re: [emacs-bidi] lisp hack: visual-2-logical and back leaving ASCII out

[Ehud Karni]

On Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:31:36 +0000, Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > > part 1. Latex commands
>  > > A with logical Hebrew. (capital letter indicating iso-8859-8 char, _
>  > >   whitespace) 
>  > > SHALOM_RAV__
>  > > B visual Hebrew
>  > > VAR_MOLAHS_____
>  > > 
>  > > part 2. I apply the converter which gives
>  > > A
>  > > __VAR_MOLAHS
>  > > B
>  > > _____SHALOM_RAV
>  > > 
>  > > Part 3 I apply the converter _again_ which gives part 1.
> 
> All of this is done by the _SAME_ function!

This can't be UTR#9 compliant. There are known cases of visual text
that can not be represnted in logical order without formatting code
(e.g. digits Hebre digits in L2R paragraph).

Anyway, for simple cases you can use `winvert' to achive the same
results (it works on MULE Hebrew in Emacs 21.1). Running it twice
when there are NO formatting characters will give the original string
in most cases.

Ehud.


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