Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Alex Schroeder wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> (bidi-visual-to-logical-test "abc ECNO abc ~~~23%%% TSET" 'R2L 'string)
> >> "   a   b   c       E   C   N   O       a   b   c       ~   ~   ~   2   3  
> >>  %   %   %       T   S   E   T"
> >
> > I don't understand: you should have reversed this first, since it's an 
> > R2L context, but it looks like you didn't?  (The same is true for the 
> > first example, which worked.)
> 
> I wrote bidi-visual-to-logical-test so that I can easily modify it and
> get debugging info from it.  So when I use bidi-visual-to-logical-test
> the input is reversed and the output is reversed again.

Okay, but then the mnemonicized output of the interim phases of 
conversion should be read in reverse?  I mean, if I want to go through 
the conversion phases and compare the results with what UAX#9 says, I 
need to look at the printed stuff backwards?