Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:49:19 +0530 From: ashish@FreeBSD.org (Ashish SHUKLA) To: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> Cc: ports-list freebsd <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [CFT] editors/emacs to 24.1 Message-ID: <86wr1ul4rc.fsf@chateau.d.if> In-Reply-To: <500D6B90.703@janh.de> (Jan Henrik Sylvester's message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:19:44 %2B0200") References: <86vchenbsx.fsf@chateau.d.if> <500D3652.2000603@janh.de> <86r4s2n1uk.fsf@chateau.d.if> <500D419B.6070200@janh.de> <867gtumu3k.fsf@chateau.d.if> <500D6B90.703@janh.de>
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--=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:19:44 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> said: > On 07/23/2012 16:26, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:20:43 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> sa= id: >>> 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=3Den_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. >>>>=20 >>>> Did you try other terminal, like mrxvt ? I think it's problem with ter= minal, >>>> and not Emacs, but I might be wrong. >>=20 >>> 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. >>=20 >> 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. Good to know. And, thanks for the detailed feedback. :-) =2D-=20 Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 Sent from my Emacs --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJQDZWnAAoJEMdGz6nnT6SwQqAQAIF4fuZ+dYkbPpI/u/rPUvcw JY/rQrn7WFy17LBYZOBjMCq3P4IAH/lG3TsrCsfDCBzYu9p17q1Ibx+Eo/qBGfFV 0z8fHKfOfJVbXx1GUXeTntyvttsPiXj52VLDCbC1mp/2NCQryRBqGxEy7pyr7tEj lwnbZnph3x0fh3dGxPLNzJz1k2dy9d4qP8tqrQiyLb/hMeTQsPx8FVFy9xzyI1FA kaJPq+bZPBb3E2yKM1VsBUTjkCx2D+IjpQXHM+/8LRqRrjaREUIserypzE2qMm2O 4jiuxr7xQ8RGj/sjdsvU8k/3hgKPaycTiWdILv5VY1unNfCfNMoLMD/+Mgm/hwYp dtS7f5h16nrDFDKZlVsNiCIj0IgTcxfvfq+mYh9Jq8R8sbo1oZOM1xoZynqyi8rS kxj0iz7j0XnxfAC5NQ0r8UfK36oEuRDpRrTWSLouByLXwP9ugPoCoTnDXy6wu9Tf Hf0cAadfwLjEyF/9aosOZqdCCuEVuom3MW3Ra2JnOgWJ5p5IhhQ1o6aFSKw0CiNj kaaZORvY0UCUePmSunrgBoDEvtfaDniCzVOiDXBTyjsusbouLC+T7WM1JCoHSmh8 YXbTFkmG66JDPyClUOQjYHo9SzCSy2rA+XSLYWHbqEGBorbxQdgB1gpsqLLSv2f/ bHzZdd9kCvE5L4QnNlok =hLXX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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