[emacs-bidi] Re: state of BIDI within stable GNU emacs (UTF8) nikud

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:10:17 +0300
> From: Thamer Mahmoud <address@hidden>
> Cc: Gregg Reynolds <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Eli, any thoughts on the attached patch? Is there an interest in
> seeing it checked in to Emacs proper? It's a trivial patch, but I'd be
> willing to sign the GNU papers if necessary.

Given the size of the changes, you will indeed need to sign papers.

In any case, please send the patches to address@hidden, where
more developers will have a chance to review them and comment.

Personally, I don't have any objections to including this, although
I'm not sure how this will help, given that the display engine does
not support Arabic at this time.  Perhaps it is a good idea to
explain, when you post this to emacs-devel, why you think it is useful
to add this input method.

Finally, please include ChangeLog entries with all your changes.

> This makes distributing a minor mode for Arabic editing, or adapting
> other Hebrew-specific packages for use with Arabic, alot easier.

When you post the changes to emacs-devel, please elaborate on how they
make this easier.

>       - Add properly encoded Arabic characters to the HELLO file. 

What change is that? how they were encoded before, and how do you
suggest to encode them?

Thanks.