[emacs-bidi] Re: emacs-bidi for MS Windows?

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002  Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:
> 
> > > My main and important questions is: should Emacs-bidi compile with
> > > Mingw and work on MS Windows?
> > 
> > No idea.  It has been tested only with the X Window System.
> 
> One problem with the Windows port of Emacs is that some of the Windows 
> output routines do logical-to-visual reordering internally.  Try 
> displaying etc/HELLO on Windows in an unpatched Emacs 21.x and look at 
> the Hebrew greeting: it will be displayed correctly in visual order, 
> right to left, even though Emacs sent the logical-order string to the 
> display!  Now move point with C-f across the Hebrew greeting, and you 
> will see it displayed in the logical order(!).

I think this should be considered as a bug in NT Emacs 21.x and
properly reported.  You are definitely the right person to do it.

> 
> So I expect some problems with bidi Emacs on Windows.  The 
> Windows-specific display code should somehow disable the automatic 
> reordering performed by the Windows runtime.
> 

Let's make the NT Emacs team aware of the problem as soon as possible.

Best regards

Janusz

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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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