Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:28:19 +0200
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> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
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> >> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:42:39 +0200
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> >> Presumably I will also need to tell the widget to render its own text in
> >> bidi mode. 
> >
> > By itself, or by using Emacs facilities?
> 
> They are gtk widgets. I havent looked at it closely, but I presume you
> tell the gtk widgets which locale to render text in.

Actually, I'd expect gtk widgets to do this automatically, no matter
in what locale.  The text it renders should supply the hint.

> So, by itself, yes.

You can do that, Emacs won't care.