Re: [emacs-bidi] Arabic in Unicode

[Matan Ninio]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

> > From: TAKAHASHI Naoto <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:23:10 +0900 (JST)
> > 
> > "Eli Zaretskii" writes:
> > 
> > > Btw, if the buffer is left unchanged, how can Emacs print the text
> > > correctly (with "M-x lpr-buffer" etc.)?

what about "ps-print-buffer-with-faces"?  it manages to catch other
face-changes by font-lock.  (or is that a silly idea?)

> > 
> > If you have an intelligent Arabic printer, it could do the glyph
> > selection by itself.  Obviously, printers that accept iso8859-6 should
> > be able to do that.  However, I do not know whether such printers
> > exist.
> 
> Could people who use Arabic in other word processors please tell
> whether it is reasonable to expect such printers to exist?
> 
> > Otherwise, we have to pass the content of the buffer to a filter for
> > glyph selection.
> 
> This seems to be a good reason for a function which will perform such
> a transformation on a buffer.
> 
> Also, is it customary in Arabic text processing to leave the text in a
> file without presentation forms applied, and rely on the editor to do
> that at display time?  If not, this again would indicate that the
> changes should be permanent in the buffer, not only on the display.
> 
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