[CFT] editors/emacs to 24.1

[Ashish SHUKLA]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:19:44 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me at 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 at 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 at 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.

Good to know.

And, thanks for the detailed feedback. :-)

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Ashish SHUKLA      | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116  20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0
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