Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Stefan Monnier]

Could you move on to some other discussion?
I mean, it's not like this is a problem we need to fix now (if ever).
So let's cross this bridge when we get there.


        Stefan


>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>,
>> address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 13:13:26 +0200
>> 
>> However, the problems specific to R->L typesetting are mostly not in the
>> character set and string handling area but rather concern the display
>> algorithms where we already found that supporting all the functionality
>> of Emacs is not well-supported by industry-standard solutions like
>> Pango.

> Only people who don't speak any of the R2L languages can seriously
> claim that using Pango/Cairo is the way to support R2L in Emacs.
> There are just too many quirks that Emacs needs for user satisfaction
> that an external GP renderer can never provide.

> Using Pango also means you are at the mercy of their developers as far
> as bidi is concerned.  And it doesn't help that the development in
> that area is not really "alive and kicking" as one would hope; e.g.,
> the latest changes in UAX#9, released with Unicode 6.3 a year ago, are
> still not supported in Pango or FriBidi.

> Besides, using Pango means no bidi in text-mode frames.  (Some people
> say this should be delegated to bidi-aware terminal emulators, like
> PuTTY and some Linux-based emulator whose name I don't remember, but
> that's again only because those people don't use the R2L scripts.
> Doing bidi display for TTY Emacs this way is simply unworkable.)