Re: [emacs-bidi] bidi categories

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alex Schroeder <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 18:46:16 +0100
> 
> Hm, what hebeng.el does is it gets the types of all chars in a string
> -- ie. some are L, some are R, and some are various forms of
> "undecided".  hebeng.el then does some context sensitive manipulation
> in order to get it right.

Yes.

> I've written code based on categories.  I think this will be
> adequate.

Yes, I think it's okay.

> (defun get-bidi-type (char)
>   "Return the bidi type of the given CHAR.
> The resulting type is one of A, B, D, I, L, N, R, space or -.  The

I'd prefer the classification defined by UAX#9.  It would be
confusing, I think, to have 2 different classifications.