Re: CVS: VIM updates

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:33:40AM -0800, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net> wrote:
> 
> I think you mean "alef lam" (alef before lam) - and I think you mean it
> doesn't look like LAA and that is due to the fact that I'm waiting for
> Bram to return from his sabbatical to ask some technical questions.  I don't
> want to hack a quick-n-dirty solution since that would certainly complicate
> searches (or so I'm thinking).  In detail: I would very much like to keep the
> logical and visual arrays correspond one-to-one and as such I need to link
> (somehow internally to vim)
> 
> 
> The "empty-but-valid" encoding and trick eludes me and might be something
> new internal to vim altogether.
> 

No, the logical order would be the same. For example, in Yudit, it is a
combination of the two same characters.. so, 'b' corresponds to 0x0644 and
0x0627.. (the same as with VIM).. but they look different.

> For example, the colon ':' I don't see any mention of it.  Is it legal to
> simply revert to ASCII for ALL the punctuation unless they exist in
> ISO-8859-6 ?
> 

That *is* the idea ;) Everything in ASCII + the Arabic stuff.

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