Re: emacs-bidi for MS Windows?
[email protected] (Janusz S. Bień)
| Newsgroups | gmane.emacs.bidi |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote: > > > > My main and important questions is: should Emacs-bidi compile with > > > Mingw and work on MS Windows? > > > > No idea. It has been tested only with the X Window System. > > One problem with the Windows port of Emacs is that some of the Windows > output routines do logical-to-visual reordering internally. Try > displaying etc/HELLO on Windows in an unpatched Emacs 21.x and look at > the Hebrew greeting: it will be displayed correctly in visual order, > right to left, even though Emacs sent the logical-order string to the > display! Now move point with C-f across the Hebrew greeting, and you > will see it displayed in the logical order(!). I think this should be considered as a bug in NT Emacs 21.x and properly reported. You are definitely the right person to do it. > > So I expect some problems with bidi Emacs on Windows. The > Windows-specific display code should somehow disable the automatic > reordering performed by the Windows runtime. > Let's make the NT Emacs team aware of the problem as soon as possible. Best regards Janusz -- , dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Na tym koncie czytam i wysylam poczte i wiadomosci offline. On this account I read/post mail/news offline.