Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:19:44 +0200 From: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> To: Ashish SHUKLA <ashish@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-list freebsd <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [CFT] editors/emacs to 24.1 Message-ID: <500D6B90.703@janh.de> In-Reply-To: <867gtumu3k.fsf@chateau.d.if> References: <86vchenbsx.fsf@chateau.d.if> <500D3652.2000603@janh.de> <86r4s2n1uk.fsf@chateau.d.if> <500D419B.6070200@janh.de> <867gtumu3k.fsf@chateau.d.if>
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On 07/23/2012 16:26, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:20:43 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> said: >> On 07/23/2012 13:39, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: >>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:32:34 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> said: >>>> Arabic, which is finally displayed from right-to-left, works in >>>> windowed mode, but for me, it does not work correctly with "-nw": >>>> While it is displayed correctly in a LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Konsole (KDE >>>> terminal), the order of the letters is changed just by moving the >>>> cursor through Arabic text. I do not think this is a problem with the >>>> port, but either with my setup or with emacs-24.1 in general. >>> >>> Did you try other terminal, like mrxvt ? I think it's problem with terminal, >>> and not Emacs, but I might be wrong. > >> mrxvt and mrxvt-devel both do not display utf-8 at all. I tried >> rxvt-unicode: While only some of the Arabic characters where displayed >> correctly, the cursor was moving properly and it did not reorder the >> characters. Emacs and the Emacs port seem to be fine. Finding and >> setting up a terminal that works properly with Arabic seems to be the >> problem. > > Sorry, I was talking about mlterm[1]. Just for the record: x11/mlterm WITH_FRIBIDI does correct editing of Arabic in a shell and in "emacs -nw". Otherwise, "emacs -nw" does not work very well in mlterm: Backspace does not work, while it works outside Emacs, and combinations using the <Alt> key do not work, but they work properly in both konsole and rxvt-unicode. Anyhow, the shortcomings of different terminal emulators are really OT and the only conclusion should be that there really seems to be no problem with either Emacs or the Emacs port. Thanks, Jan Henrik
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