Re: Handling invisible text in bidirectional display

[Stefan Monnier]

> This is another design decision I needed to make -- how to handle
> invisible text in the display engine modified to support bidirectional
> text.

Great to hear you progress on bidi support!

> Therefore, I decided to modify the code which skips invisible
> characters, such that it will skip them in the visual order, until it
> finds the first character that is outside the region covered by the
> invisible property.  Note that the ``first'' visible character could
> be before or after the invisible region, in the logical order.

It's consistent with the current behavior, so it's probably no worse
than trying to preserve the current implementation.


        Stefan