> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:50:31 +0100 > From: Egmont Koblinger via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > > In turn, vim, emacs and friends stand there clueless, not knowing > how to do BiDi in terminals.
This is inaccurate: Emacs (at least the brand known as "GNU Emacs") supports bidirectional editing in text terminals and GUI displays alike, since Emacs 24.1, which was released in June 2012. The latest released version 26.1 supports all the latest changes in the UBA, up to and including Unicode 10.0. What Emacs version did you try which led you to the conclusion that bidirectional editing and display in Emacs were not supported on text terminals?