Re: Re: state of BIDI within stable GNU emacs (UTF8)nikud
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:56:15 +0900 > From: Martin Duerst <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > At 04:48 05/11/24, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> http://www.m17n.org/emacs-bidi/ > > >The ``other ongoing attempt'' it refers to is the code I wrote, but > >unfortunately no one had time to work on it since it was written and > >integrated into the Emacs display engine. It needs a lot of > >debugging. > > What kind of debugging exactly? Start using it with both LTR and RTL languages, and explore and debug any problems (incorrect display, crashes, etc.) that you find. > Do you have a known list of bugs? No. But the code was only tested and debugged outside Emacs, as a stand-alone reordering program, so I'd guess it has gobs of (unknown) bugs when used in the context of Emacs display engine. > Has anybody done anything like a code review or so? Not that I know of, no. TIA