Re: [emacs-bidi] improve visual-to-logical

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alex Schroeder <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:14:29 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I don't recomment using the latter: it's not a good idea to mix two 
> > different charsets in Emacs.  If you use hebrew-iso8859-8 charset, stick 
> > to it all the way.  If you want to use the Unicode characters, stick to 
> > them, but then your current code should be rewritten a bit (the tables, 
> > mostly).
> 
> I don't understand.  I don't use the hebrew-iso8859-8 charset
> directly.  The table code I wrote will assign bidi types to the
> characters in hebrew-iso8859-8 just like in all the other 8859
> charsets.  And the rest of my code works with these bidi types.

There are two types of Hebrew characters in Emacs 21: those which
belong to the hebrew-iso8859-8 charset, and those which belong to the
mule-unicode-0100-24ff charset.  My point is that you should use with
each one of these the LRM and RLM that belong to the same charset.