Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull:
> 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.
Well, the nice thing about it being 2005 and not 2000 is that there’s a
good, GPLed, Unicode-conformant BiDi implementation out there.
http://fribidi.sf.net/ . So it might be relatively easy to implement today.
> I still have the R2L ASCII charset and the r2l and l2r faces I played
> with back then around somewhere. :-)
Some of its features were committed, and they’re confusing when you come
across them without that context. :-) .
i think it's more that some r2l features were inherited from mule 2.3;
whatever it had, we still have.