>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe
<kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
Stephen> Basically what happened at the M17N conference was that
Stephen> Karni made it plain that he had no interest whatsoever in
Stephen> working with XEmacs (I don't recall any hostility, just he
Stephen> was happy enough with Emacs and didn't feel like exerting
Stephen> any effort to work on portablity), so we would have had to
Stephen> do it all ourselves. At that time Eli Z didn't really
Stephen> care if Emacs got bidi (he was using some other editor for
Stephen> that). And we had other issues to worry about, so it got
Stephen> shelved for a while.
Stephen> I still have the R2L ASCII charset and the r2l and l2r
Stephen> faces I played with back then around somewhere. :-)
I think I have some code of yours for converting R2L and L2R leaving
ASCII code untouched.