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Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support
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Jason Rumney |
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Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support |
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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:09:57 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> And another question: AFAIU, an LGSTRING specifies characters as
> Unicode codepoints, while the Windows Uniscribe APIs expect wchar_t
> wide characters, which on Windows means UTF-16. This means we should
> encode the codepoints in LGSTRINGs to UTF-16 before passing them to
> Uniscribe, rather than passing them unaltered, right? The current
> code will break for characters whose Unicode codepoints are beyond the
> BMP, right?
Theortically, yes. In practice I don't think any of the scripts that we
use the shaping engine for lie beyond the BMP.
- Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/01
- Re: Arabic support, Kenichi Handa, 2010/09/02
- Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/02
- Re: Arabic support, Kenichi Handa, 2010/09/02
- Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/03
- Re: Arabic support, Kenichi Handa, 2010/09/03
- Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/03
- Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/03
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Amit Aronovitch, 2010/09/03