Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status.

[Eli Zaretskii]

Yair Friedman (Jerusalem) wrote:
> 
> "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Btw, Yair: is it true that you use the hebrew-iso8859-8 character set
> > to insert diacriticals?  If so, how do you succeed in displaying
> > them?  IIRC, the iso8859-8 character set doesn't define diacriticals
> > at all.
> 
> I use the "future" 8859-8 (Which will probably have other number
> anyway).  The exact name is SI1311-2 which is an extension of iso8859-8
> to include diacriticals and bidi marks.

That's what I thought, thanks.

One reason that I asked was that, in anticipation for what you did, I added
to Emacs 8859-8 tables the information about the diacriticals and
directional formatting codes, taken from SI1311-2, in those slots which
8859-8 leaves undefined.  And another Emacs maintainer just asked me what
was the rationale for adding codepoints that aren't in iso8859.

Btw, I heard that Israel's SI intends to submit a proposal to ISO to
include those codepoints in iso8859.  Is that true?

> As this is just "A proof of concept" I'm too lazy to create another
> coding system in Emacs - especially as I have no idea on who fonts will
> interact with that system. I don't know who to create a new font coding
> as well.

If you have a Unicode font installed that covers the Hebrew characters, and
if you get the latest CVS sources of Emacs (by anon CVS access to the
development tree), then you should be able to use the Unicode Hebrew
characters out of the box.  No work required, just turn on a couple of
minor modes that make it possible.

> These things will be resolved, and everything I do also applies to
> Unicode as well.

Of course.  Thanks for your work.