Re: [emacs-bidi] UTR#9 - Unicode BiDi (was Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:15:13 -0400
> From: Behdad Esfahbod <address@hidden>
> 
> Is it true that your implementation of Unicode Bidi algorithm
> does not follow the UTR#9, with respect to handligh dash?  Just
> wanted to make sure this is not true, otherwise, please consider
> following the standard.

Handa-san is currently trying to plug the sequential implementation of
UAX#9 that I wrote into the Emacs display code.  The code I wrote
renders "H-5" as "-5H", as per UAX#9.  One needs to type "H-{RLM}5"
to get the "H-5" result that most Hebrew users want.

I guess we will need to get used to type RLM and LRM in similar
situations, since we must be UAX#9 compliant, and since UAX#9 results
in such madness in quite a few cases like this, sigh.