On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 11:08 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Omer Zak
[... a pathological example was snipped ...]
> > In which BiDi reordering would leave the software developer very
> > confused if he wants to figure out into which glyphs do 'q' and 'v' get
> > translated. Or which glyph w
> From: Omer Zak
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii , linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:55:13 +0300
>
> Nice example!
>
> It could be complicated further by having strings with mixture of LTR
> and RTL glyphs. Such as:
>
> string.tr("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
> "ABC,EFG abc: HIJ>
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 10:41 +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> as the syntax engine should isolate the bidi reordering of A from that
> of B, there is no problem. It won't be flawless though as e.g. in the
> following example:
>
>string.tr("abcdef",
> "ABCDEF")
>
> where you would
I absolutely agree with Eli, that getting reasonable Bidi display when
editing source code in Emacs is feasible, for the very reason that emacs is
*syntax aware*. As long as the syntax is understood, it is possible to make
sure that the various syntax elements (keywords, strings, comments) are
hand
