I agree that I don't believe chances are big of finding funding. And even if there was funding I think there are more urgent BiDi issues like fixing bugs in OpenOffice, Gtk, or KDE.
So unless I sit at home rolling my thumbs for too long, I'm afraid that I won't have time looking into it. Regards, Dov 2009/2/21 Amit Aronovitch <aronovi...@gmail.com> > 2009/2/20 Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobg...@gmail.com> > >> There was a complex issue of emacs bidi that I tried to follow back in >> 2002. The mailing list still up at: >> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-bidi/ >> >> What I remember from the discussion was that fribidi and the Unicode Bidi >> algorithm were ruled out, because they were considered not to be >> "sufficient" for the emacs bidi needs. The discussion eventually reached >> such a technical complexity that I lost interest. In the end, appearently >> nothing came out of the effort and the bidi changes never made it into the >> trunk. >> >> It is probably a good idea to restart and try to copy the Gtk or the Qt >> behavior. Note that BiDi is a lot more than just the application of the >> algorithm. You also need to take into account things such as: >> >> - Cursor movement. >> - Internal splitting of the visual and the logical positions. >> - Hit detection for mouse down. >> - The fact that a continous logical selection may be one, two, or >> three visual selections. >> - How to deal with zero width characters. (Is there a >> view-control-code mode in emacs?). >> >> I'd be willing to do the work, if someone else would fund it. I'm leaving >> my current employment in another few months, and I'm currently looking for >> large and small jobs. >> > > I doubt that we can find serious funding for this issue - emacs is not very > fashionable these days and I don't know of any local organization that uses > it regularly as a major platform (although you can find Emacsers scattered > practically everywhere). > However, maybe we can try setting up a bounty, through Hamakor, or maybe > even through FSF. > > Having said that, I am certainly interested in this issue. I use emacs for > daily work, but switch to gedit whenever there's Hebrew involved - not very > convenient (but managable since work is in English)... > If someone else starts working on this, I'll follow closely and maybe give > a hand (if I find time). > > Amit > >
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