Re: problems compiling emacs-bidi

> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:15:04 -0400
> From: "Ghinwa F. Choueiter" <[email protected]>
> 
> I understand about the ligatures. I actually already have emacs (21.3) 
> and xemacs (21.4.15). Clearly when I copy paste arabic into them, I get 
> garbage. I cannot seem to find any documentation online on how to set 
> them up for Arabic. Is there a font I should download? Anything special 
> I should put in my init.el? Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Emacs 21.3 is very old.  I suggest to check out the development
sources, they shouldn't have any problems with fonts.