Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods

[Scot Becker]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Scot Becker <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 07:23:34 +0100
>>
>> OK, Emacs compiled and bidi working. Very cool.
>
> Thanks for testing.
>
>> A few questions:
>>
>> Should I expect yanking a bit of unicode bidi Hebrew text with niqqud,
>> copied to the system clipboard from a browser, and yanked into a bidi
>> buffer, to work (it doesn't. vowels don't sit under their letters)?
>
> No, this doesn't work yet.  There are two problems:
>
>  . Displaying vowels under (or above, as the case may be) the letters
>   is supposed to be done via the "character composition" feature of
>   Emacs, whereby several distinct characters are drawn as a single
>   glyph.  However, character composition doesn't yet work with
>   bidi-reordered text.  Kenichi Handa, who implemented character
>   composition in Emacs, is now working on making that compatible with
>   bidi reordering, so I hope this will soon work.
>
>  . The necessary tables for composing niqqud with letters are not yet
>   set up in Emacs out of the box.  So display of niqqud does not work
>   even without bidi reordering.  Yair is working on that, and he
>   already posted the initial variant of the necessary settings on
>   emacs-devel a day or two ago.
>
> When both these problems are resolved, you will be able to see niqqud
> displayed correctly.

Ah, right.  Thanks.  Meanwhile I'll try to keep playing in the bidi sandbox.
Keep well,

Scot