Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Does the function font-shape-gstring help with fitting this in?
>>     
>
> I'm sorry to say that I don't understand what it does.  If you can
> explain, or give me an educational example to play with, maybe I will
> be able to answer your question, my profound ignorance of GUI
> rendering notwithstanding.
>   

On second thoughts, it probably doesn't help for two reasons: 
font-shape-gstring uses the font backend to do glyph reordering, which 
would give inconsistent results on different platforms; and I just 
realised that to work on terminals, the font backend is the wrong place 
to be doing bidi reordering.

> Which is why I tried

Apologies for skimming over parts of your message.