Re: [emacs-bidi] diacritics, ligatures, etc.

[Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: TAKAHASHI Naoto <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:57:50 +0900 (JST)
>> 
>> See 3.10 Canonical Ordering Behavior in the Unicode 3.0 book.  The
>> principles are:
>> 
>> 1. Base character first, combining characters next.
>> 2. If there are multiple combining characters, arrange them
>> graphically outward.
>
> Right, but this happens automatically in the case in point: the
> diacritics are typed after the base character, and the bidi reordering
> keeps that order, since they all are strong RTL.
>
> So these rulings don't mean anything special in practice, in this
> case.

Would any one with the book please look again? I seem to remember that
the order must be letter, shin/sin dot, point(s), accents(s).

Any pointers to online documents would be helpful as well.