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

[Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Yair Friedman (Jerusalem) wrote:
>
>> > 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).
>
> Sure, but that's exactly the order in which you type those, right?

Not necessary, the order which the user decides to type various points
may not be so clearly cut - what comes first Dagesh or Qamats?

The real question is does the input method has to re-order characters if
typed in the "wrong" order?