Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.90

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:58:54 -0700 (PDT)
> From: nabil-82 <address@hidden>
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> "Eli Zaretskii">
> > 1, 2, 3, etc. are the so-called "European Numbers", and they are always
> > displayed left to right, even in > a right-to-left paragraph. 
> I have the same "problem" if I use the eastern-arab-digits.

Yes.  Again, the UBA mandates that.  European numbers and Arabic
numbers (what you call eastern-arab-digits) behave almost the same as
far as the UBA is concerned.  There are differences between them, but
they are very minor.

> You have the same behavior by hebrew. 

But in Hebrew this is expected: numbers are always displayed
left-to-right, no matter if the paragraph is L2R or R2L.

> And moving the cursor is confusing. It makes the jumps by the begin
> and end of every number.

Cursor motion in Emacs is in logical order.  I know that some people
find this confusing, but at least some bidi-aware applications out
there do the same.  It should be possible (although not trivial) to
add visual-order cursor motion to Emacs, but logical-order movement is
a must, and so it was implemented first.