Re: Unicode support

[Miles Bader]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Changing shape after each typed character will probably have
> undesirable effects on many optimizations used by the Emacs redisplay
> engine, specifically those for inserting a single character.  That's
> why I suggested to go about it as we do with just-in-time font-lock,
> i.e. defer them a bit.

I think it's much more important that the users get what they expect --
if people that type in arabic find constantly mutating characters the
most natural way for things to work, then I think saving a few cycles is
not worth it (the direct-insert optimizations are worth less and less in
general these days anyway, with machines getting faster and faster).

Of course they might _like_ `deferred resolution', ...

-Miles
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