Re: emacs-27 30a7ee5: Fix Arabic shaping when eww/shr fill the text to be rendered

[Stefan Monnier]

> Yes, it does.  But the problem is more general, so the fix is not just
> a kludge to fix what shr does.  As the comment explains.

Yes, the fix is fine.

>> Isn't that a problem, since its docstring says:
>> 
>>     [...]
>>     Setting this to nil is intended for use in debugging the display code.
>>     [...]
>
> It's "do like I say, not like I do" ;-)

;-)

>> Can we change SHR so it doesn't bind this var?
>
> I didn't see any better way at the time.  Shr's naïve filling
> algorithm cannot cope with the complexity of RTL text in an LTR
> paragraph, when a long line has been continued.  Maybe it's even
> entirely impossible to DTRT in Lisp in these cases.  But if you or
> someone else have ideas, please describe them.

Fair enough, thanks,


        Stefan