>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe
<kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
Aidan> No, I didn’t. It’s not an _immediate_ concern for me, but
Aidan> if I keep up the Tajik I’ll need BiDi late next year to
Aidan> deal with Persian, with which it is mutually
Aidan> intelligible. So thank you for the summary :-) .
Please keep me (and Ben, for that matter) in the loop. I have only an
academic interest in it (I believe the same is true for Ben), but we
do care.
Basically what happened at the M17N conference was that Karni made it
plain that he had no interest whatsoever in working with XEmacs (I
don't recall any hostility, just he was happy enough with Emacs and
didn't feel like exerting any effort to work on portablity), so we
would have had to do it all ourselves. At that time Eli Z didn't
really care if Emacs got bidi (he was using some other editor for
that). And we had other issues to worry about, so it got shelved for
a while.
I still have the R2L ASCII charset and the r2l and l2r faces I played
with back then around somewhere. :-)
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