Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Alex Schroeder wrote:

> * Possible fix: string-reverse

Yes.

> When reversing input and output:
> 
> (string-reverse
>  (bidi-visual-to-logical
>   (string-reverse "<123H/>shalom<123H>") 'R2L))
> returns "<H123>shalom</H123>" as required
> 
> This solves the immediate problem, but fails with the following:
> 
> (string-reverse
>  (bidi-visual-to-logical
>   (string-reverse "<h123>MALAAS</h123>") 'L2R))
> return     "<hSAALAM<123</h123>"
> instead of "<h123>SAALAM</h123>"

This latter case doesn't need to be reversed, because the context is
L2R.  You should only reverse the input if the context is R2L.

Does that solve all of the problems?  If not, please post the menmonic
output of the case that still isn't solved.