Re: [emacs-bidi] emacs-bidi for MS Windows?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:

> > My main and important questions is: should Emacs-bidi compile with
> > Mingw and work on MS Windows?
> 
> No idea.  It has been tested only with the X Window System.

One problem with the Windows port of Emacs is that some of the Windows 
output routines do logical-to-visual reordering internally.  Try 
displaying etc/HELLO on Windows in an unpatched Emacs 21.x and look at 
the Hebrew greeting: it will be displayed correctly in visual order, 
right to left, even though Emacs sent the logical-order string to the 
display!  Now move point with C-f across the Hebrew greeting, and you 
will see it displayed in the logical order(!).

So I expect some problems with bidi Emacs on Windows.  The 
Windows-specific display code should somehow disable the automatic 
reordering performed by the Windows runtime.