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

[Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Yair Friedman (Jerusalem) wrote:

>> After more careful testing, I found that you're right, although I'm not
>> sure this is the correct thing to do. I Don't see anywhere that the user
>> is signaled about the missing compositions.
>
> The composition isn't missing: it's there, but it just isn't displayed,
> because a character terminal doesn't support that.  This is how display is
> supposed to work on a tty: it displays the first character of a composition
> and ignores the rest.

Yes, but the user doesn't have any indication of the presence of those
composed characters, this is exactly the same situation that was with
silent EOL conversion.  Emacs should clearly notify the user that there
are more "invisible" characters. A notice when reading the file (like
when invoking region-upcase), and some sort of mark in the mode-line
when the cursor is over a composed character is required.

Specifically for Hebrew points, if the user will not see the points, she
might use "ktiv malé", making the final result awkward.