Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

>> From: Jason Rumney <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected],  [email protected],  [email protected]
>> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:09:57 +0800
>> 
>> In practice I don't think any of the scripts that we use the shaping
>> engine for lie beyond the BMP.
>
> By "scripts that we use" you mean scripts supported by Uniscribe?
> scripts supported by Emacs? scripts available on most Windows systems?
> something else?

Emacs.

> I do see some useful characters beyond the BMP, e.g. the 1DXXX block
> for mathematical symbols, 1F1XX for parenthesized and circled Latin
> letters, CJK Ideographs extensions in the 20XXX and 2AXXX ranges, etc.

Right, but none of these require shaping AFAICS.