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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Janusz S. =?iso-8859-2?q?Bie=F1?=)
> Date: 12 Aug 2002 08:24:50 +0200
> > 
> > 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.

I already did, when I discovered the problem about a year ago.

Of course, it never does any harm to repeat the report.  But as long
as bidi Emacs is not a reality, there's no urgent need to bug the
NTEmacs maintainers about this matter.