[Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107529: Fix direction of keyboard layout display for Arabic input method.

[Eli Zaretskii]

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revno: 107529
committer: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Wed 2012-03-07 20:48:07 +0200
message:
  Fix direction of keyboard layout display for Arabic input method.
  
   lisp/international/quail.el (quail-help): Force
   bidi-paragraph-direction be left-to-right.  See discussion in
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-03/msg00062.html
   for the reason.
modified:
  lisp/ChangeLog
  lisp/international/quail.el

=== modified file 'lisp/ChangeLog'
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog    2012-03-07 07:48:16 +0000
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog    2012-03-07 18:48:07 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2012-03-07  Eli Zaretskii  <address@hidden>
+
+       * international/quail.el (quail-help): Force
+       bidi-paragraph-direction be left-to-right.  See discussion in
+       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-03/msg00062.html
+       for the reason.
+
 2012-03-07  Michael Albinus  <address@hidden>
 
        Avoid superfluous registering of signals.  (Bug#10807)

=== modified file 'lisp/international/quail.el'
--- a/lisp/international/quail.el       2012-01-19 07:21:25 +0000
+++ b/lisp/international/quail.el       2012-03-07 18:48:07 +0000
@@ -2485,6 +2485,11 @@
     ;; the width of the window in which the buffer displayed.
     (with-current-buffer (help-buffer)
       (setq buffer-read-only nil)
+      ;; Without this, a keyboard layout with R2L characters might be
+      ;; displayed reversed, right to left.  See the thread starting at
+      ;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-03/msg00062.html
+      ;; for a description of one such situation.
+      (setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right)
       (insert "Input method: " (quail-name)
              " (mode line indicator:"
              (quail-title)