Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew characters categories

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Yair Friedman (Jerusalem) wrote:

> Yes, but we want to detect and handle collisions. I'm not sure that we
> want to relay on the font designer.

I'm not sure: Emacs is not a typesetter, it's a text editor.  So the 
display it produces doesn't need to be pedantically correct, just 
reasonably readable by someone who knows the language.  Likewise, it is 
not unreasonable to expect a good font design, and produce a somewhat 
ugly display if it isn't.

Complicating the Hebrew display or making it much slower, due to these 
problems, seems like a lot to pay better looks.  IMHO, of course.