Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: improving bidi documents display

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:34:22 +0900
> From: "Martin J. Dürst"
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> CC: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Eli Osherovich <address@hidden>,
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> one based on overlays, which is what was originally suggested for this 
> purpose by Ken'ichi Handa, but is currently not working because the 
> characters in overlays don't participate in the bidi algorithm (Eli 
> thinks that would make things too slow).

If by "characters in overlays" you mean display strings, then they are
not yet reordered because I didn't have enough time to make that
happen yet, not because I think they would be slow.  If you mean
something else, you should know that overlays that specify other
properties _are_ supported.