Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:

> Latin-6 defines only one codepoint for each Arabic letter; glyph
> variations (word beginning, middle, end or isolated) are not
> represented.

That's what I knew, too.

So that means we cannot support Arabic presentation forms in the current 
Emacs except in the mule-unicode-* character sets, is that correct?  
Because IIRC, the Mule Arabic charset is based on iso8859-6, right?

> To release the modification, we need to get an official permission
> from the responsible section of our institute.  A necessary procedure
> has just begun, but nobody knows how long it will take.

Perhaps in the meantime, you could publish a textual description of what 
the code does.  Then someone else could implement that without bumping 
into copyright issues.