Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:21:55 -0600
From: Gregg Reynolds <address@hidden>
CC: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>, address@hidden
Sorry, there's still no support for bidi editing in any version of
Emacs, not even in the CVS.
Sure there is! Well, sort of. Emacs correctly shapes Arabic *words*
(including diacritics) RTL, but sentences run LTR. Sometimes you have
to C-l to get it to redraw the shapes.
Is this on MS-Windows, by any chance? Because if it is, then Emacs
has nothing to do with this: it's the Windows function used to display
a word, it reorders the logical into visual order automatically. But
as soon as you move the cursor with C-f or the arrow keys, the
characters are displayed in their logical order, LTR. That's not bidi
support, it's not even close.